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GenP sub on Reddit banned (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 days ago by ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Apologies for being the bearer of bad news. "6 hours ago" means roughly 6-7pm Eastern on April 30, 2025. I have no further information; I only know because I was going to visit the wiki and . . . apparently now I'm not.

It's under "Guides & Search Engines" in the Software section of the megathread, should anyone with rights care to update.

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[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 27 points 2 days ago

Someone on dbzer0 should make a genp community.

[-] hyderite@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

!GenP@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

prefix it with an exclamation mark to make an instance agnostic link.

!genp@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[-] dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

New to Lemmy. Can you explain what this means?

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 21 hours ago

So, since lemmy is comprised of many servers, links on dbzer0 won't work for me, on lemm.ee .

This link will link to any server's copy of the community.

[-] hyderite@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Alright, thanks :)

[-] Zephyr_exe@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 days ago

Fuck Spez and Fuck Reddit

[-] lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago

they should come over here to the bright side lemmy

[-] Sydnxt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 days ago

Your wish is granted ;)

[-] lemmywinksthegerbilking@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

nice

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 days ago

Welcome!

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 74 points 3 days ago

Im not even sure what this sub is for?

[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 66 points 3 days ago

From search : GenP is a tool that allows you to medicine Adobe apps on Windows 10 and 11

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 97 points 3 days ago

to medicine > to crack

You'd download legit trial versions of adobe shit and use GenP to disable the trial and call home functionalities. Brilliant bit of kit before I moved to Linux.

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 16 points 2 days ago

I run photoshop in wine just fine ;)

[-] merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

What version do you run?👀👀

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 21 points 2 days ago

CC 2021 (I know the URL says 22, but it provides both options and 22 allegedly is less stable)

https://github.com/LinSoftWin/Photoshop-CC2022-Linux

[-] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 2 points 2 days ago

Can this work for acrobat?

[-] HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2 points 2 days ago

No idea!

https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=847

Some old versions seem to run fine.

[-] Irelephant@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Did you know that google paid wine to make cs2 run properly?

Google later paid for improvements to Wine's support for Adobe Photoshop CS2.[27] Wine is also a regular beneficiary of Google's Summer of Code program.[28]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 3 days ago

To medicine?

[-] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 3 days ago

Yeah odd but on GitHub there is mention of pill 💊, either loss in translation or lingo https://github.com/wangzhenjjcn/AdobeGenp/releases

[-] Dumhuvud@programming.dev 43 points 3 days ago

It's just an euphemism, "DRM / License check" = "disease".

[-] dysprosium@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago

So to medicine is like to download lots of Linux ISOs, sometimes.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

I also love to legally torrent my favourite open source software legally.

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[-] atro_city@fedia.io 17 points 3 days ago

Imagine using Adobe. Being bled dry.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago

I use a really good, free alternative to photoshop and indesign.

They're called pirated photoshop and pirated indesign.

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[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago

Imagine ~~using~~ paying Adobe. Being bled dry.

[-] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Using it at all, even pirated, means becoming contaminated on some level with Adobe paradigms and makes more people more likely to eventually hand Adobe more money because "it's what I'm used to".

At least pirate something that isn't so disgusting, like Affinity, if you simply must use corpo software.

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Or, you know, "stay hungry" and keep learning new UI & methods to achieve your target results. Not everyone's a spoonfed moron, but I do agree with your pointing out that Adobe is merely following suit in the age-old "first time's free" routine.

For reasons that should be crystal clear at this point to anyone with half a brain, Crapple "gave" millions of their candy-colored shitboxes to schools around the country throughout the 90s, and look at 'em now. 🤮

Don't shame the consumer, fellow citizen. You're just as much profit fodder as the rest of us.

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[-] tfowinder@lemmy.ml 54 points 3 days ago