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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Moonrise2473@feddit.it to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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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[-] zephorah@lemm.ee 101 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 72 points 4 months ago

Maybe you can just install a pirated copy for them?

[-] Petter1@lemm.ee 10 points 3 months ago

Yes please! This story makes me so sad 😞

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 23 points 4 months ago

I like darktable for photography

[-] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 10 points 4 months ago

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

[-] xilliah@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago

Ya it's a pretty unique ui and you really need to sit down and take your time to find everything

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