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Adobe stole my creative suite (feddit.it)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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One day many years ago I had too many drinks and being stupid and naive and I bought adobe cs5. I still use it on the same computer I installed it a decade ago. Activated and installed only once. Today they revoked the access to it. Clicking the link they say "revoked because purchased from an untrustworthy reseller"

Yeah... untrustworthy reseller, look at the invoice and see who sold&shipped that physical copy...

sold by adobe themselves

Contacted support, they said that they won't do anything about it because it's EOL.

Moral of the story: don't do like me. If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing. Never give your money to Adobe.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

I recently commented about how much I hate Adobe for their horrible subscription tactics, and the fact that the Canadian government REQUIRES you to use Adobe reader to sign PDFs in order to immigrate to canada.

The last time I complained to them, they offered me a free extended trial in order to make things right. I tried to cancel the free trial on July 10th, and was informed that it would cost $100 to cancel my contract.

I don't have enough money to hire lawyers, but I am 100% sure what they did was illegal. I have a severe mental health disorder, which resulted in me trying to kill myself after being literally fucking raped by a company. July 10th is also my birthday, which was fucking great. I fucking LOVE me a good corporation, they bring so much joy to the world.

Sorry for the TMI, I fucking hate this company.

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This really sucks. As a fellow cs2 user, i switched to krita some years back, perhaps its good enough for your work.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

I don't support piracy of Adobe, because you're still using their ecosystem and still supporting it by propagating its use. Just stop using their trash, seriously.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

It would appear the installation is in need of a "repair"

[–] [email protected] 163 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

SEND THIS TO LOUIS ROSSMANN. He absolutely will rake them a new one and companies tend to magically "fix" errors in their favor when people make a huge PR stink about it.

It will help bring Adobe down faster too, because unilaterally revoking previously purchased licenses no matter how old is a great way to lose all trust from your corporate customers.

Edit: also cs5 is universally pirated, this is now your legal perogative to pirate it to retain access to the copy you PAID FOR.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It feels even dirtier because OP bought a physical copy, that feels so much more like Adobe broke it at night and stole it.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 3 months ago

I will say that this is horribly fucked, nobody should have to burn through their 15 minutes of Fame in order to receive the basic goods and services that they have paid for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Download the most recent version from Monkrus and call it a day.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

My elderly parent had this happen. Hobby is photography. Still used CS5. Boom, gone. Adobe wanted to sell a subscription plan when they called to figure out what happened, which just made them mad.

But now they’re sad and not engaging their hobby because they no longer have CS5.

Too bad I can’t get adobe on abuse of the elderly for this shit.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Maybe you can just install a pirated copy for them?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I like darktable for photography

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Darktable if you're ok with a steep learning curve, RawTherapee if you prefer an easier-to-use UI with a few less features.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 months ago

OP please forward this email and your story to Louis Rossman

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

https://youtu.be/bFbwCkvQd1o?si=pJ-v4KUHZZx2odh1

[–] [email protected] 208 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Send this to Luis Rossman. He'll have a fieldday with this shit.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sent OP’s thread to email on his business’s semi-hidden contact page

(sorry for the spam Louis, lotta us instantly thought of you - hope it translates to some awareness, action, & Adsense revenue)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Nice!

[–] [email protected] 87 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Agreed. Definitely send this to Louis. The tirade will be funny, at the very least.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

I would love it if you took them to small claims court on this. We all love piracy, but I would also love to see how that case turned out.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is what drives people to piracy. Then they whine about how pirates cost them money.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What's fumny to me is I remember watching a computer show on TV in late 90s they where interviewing an Adobe representative about the new Photoshop 5.0...

The TV host asked what adobe though about pirated copies and the representative said on LIVE TV that Photoshop price was for professional who make a living out of Photoshop and that any hobbyist had nothing to fear about using a pirated copy as it only served to get more people knowledgable about Photoshop and if these started doing business in photography and neede Photoshop they would then pay for it so to not be unprofessional.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I remember this as well. Their whole stance was that they'd get everyone using Photoshop even if people had to pirate it. That's part of how it became the industry standard.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

Probably weren't public by then.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They didn't whine about it even once here. They whined about their own untrustworthiness, which I can't argue with.

[–] [email protected] 101 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If the program is EOL why do they care if you use it or not? Like fuck thats really a nasty way on making you buy the new software. But you know what? If you are looking for a better version. Translate to Spanish Pirate Artist and you can find it there.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

You answered your own question. If OP can't use it, maybe they'll buy a subscription, thinks Adobe.

Super scummy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

🏴‍☠️

[–] [email protected] 109 points 3 months ago

They were right, they are an untrustworthy seller.

Reminds me of when all their customer data leaked, and obviously the people who pirated didn't have that issue.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

GenP e ciao

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yep, GenP is what I used for Substance Painter.

There doesn't appear to be a lemmy community for it yet, but the old subreddit is still active.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How are they different to monkrus? Am curious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Monkrus is GenP, but prepackaged into the installer, if I'm remembering the GenP subreddit wiki correctly.

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