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Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by k-mcgrady »

cromulent wrote: post #50

Yet another Adobe story: I paid for CS4, infrequent user, after a couple of hardware changes (SSDs etc) it wouldn't install anymore. Long Skype call to US (over an hour), treated like criminal. Forget it, I'm your customer taking the burden of your business problems. Happy Acorn user now. So many dollars over the years on PS/Macromedia/etc, never again. So tired of companies treating honest customers like criminals.…

>> "Edit: how many times have I bought a movie on iTunes to show my kids how to do it right, and then torrented it as I couldn't wait for the download, too slow."

Strange, I find iTunes the fastest way to download media + you can watch while downloading. For me that usually means spend 30-60 seconds downloading and then start watching and the download keeps up.

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by frogpelt »

MatthewWilkes wrote: post #36
greenyoda wrote: post #31

A guy from Adobe replied in the comments. Apparently Adobe is a bit uncomfortable with the advice that their support rep gave about downloading a pirated copy of the software: Hi, your blog post was brought to my attention. After reading this post, I want to apologize for the way that your issue was handled. Our tech support agent provided you incorrect information as far “that its OK to download pirated software”. T…

"should not of been suggested" twitch

Did you twitch when you read OP's article?

"Image in your bank treated you this way..."

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by Ellipsis753 »

I remember than after downloading Spore (the game) and finding it to be very poor quality I checked the forums. No official EA people were there but literally the advice everyone got was "here's an illegal version, it runs faster and doesn't have most of these bugs, don't worry, it's just as good but much better". Goes to show that pirated software is rarely an inferior product at all.

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by macinjosh »

As long as we're griping about Adobe. Why the hell can't I install Photoshop or any Creative Cloud product for that matter on a case-sensitive HFS+ drive!

There is a hack you can run to trick the installer into thinking the drive is case-insensitive and after that everything works without any problems. No further hacks or workarounds needed until you have to install again on a clean machine.

I know it is not their most common use case but it can't be that hard!

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by macspoofing »

DominikR wrote: post #23

I just don't get such people, how can someone be so persistently annoying instead of just downloading the damn software somewhere else? Or maybe connecting an external DVD drive/using Apple Software to connect to some DVD drive over network. Instead this guy wastes his time calling hotlines and writing a pointless blog post - I guess that's what it means to be more productive on a Mac. (Of course, there are people th…

>I just don't get such people, how can someone be so persistently annoying instead of just downloading the damn software somewhere else

From where? Torrents? And risk malware and viruses?

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by donretag »

cromulent wrote: post #50

Yet another Adobe story: I paid for CS4, infrequent user, after a couple of hardware changes (SSDs etc) it wouldn't install anymore. Long Skype call to US (over an hour), treated like criminal. Forget it, I'm your customer taking the burden of your business problems. Happy Acorn user now. So many dollars over the years on PS/Macromedia/etc, never again. So tired of companies treating honest customers like criminals.…

Are you using an alternative DNS such as OpenDNS or Google DNS? You might be using the wrong CDN since your correct geographical location might not be available.

Re: Why I’ll be Pirating Adobe’s Products From Now On

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Post by streetnigga »

grimtrigger wrote: post #56
MatthewWilkes wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"should not of been suggested" twitch

I think a lot of time is wasted on perfecting spelling/grammar because of comments like the one above. Are you having difficulty understanding Scott's message or intent?

"Are you having difficulty understanding Scott's message or intent?"

Absolutely not.

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