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[Silas Vitalia]

Those of you who don't have a more current or pirated version of the new software:

CS2 is available for free on their website, likely not forever.

http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html

Go.

[kalaratiri]

Nice find, ty.

[Rin Kaelestria]

Saw this yesterday, and got the two programs I've been missing/wanting for a while now. NOW... I have to go to storage and find out which box my tablet's in ... 

[Ghost Hunter]

Do I have to burn these EXEs to a CD or something? The installer is having issues.

Edit ; looks like we've been had

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662#4974662

[Silas Vitalia]

Do I have to burn these EXEs to a CD or something? The installer is having issues.

Still at the office, no idea.  The serial numbers are the important part, the .exes are not hard to find elsewhere if needed.

[Rin Kaelestria]

looks like we've been had

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4974662#4974662

Been had, or someone at Adobe dropped the wrong ball in the worst way possible. This has been out for a day or two, advertised as legit free copies from reliable sources, and tons of people already downloaded it. Whatever Adobe decides to do about this, I hope it's not something stupid.

[Ghost Hunter]

Apparently it does function entirely freely, but Adobe are dropping the ball on their public relations. CS2 is being provided for previous owners of the product, as the activation servers are going away, but they didn't lock the product for just previous owners. So technically it's free to download, but 'illegal to use', as Adobe don't want non-previous owners to use it.

Public relations suicide 1o1

[Tiberious Thessalonia]

*cringes at the horribly handled PR*

[Sakura Nihil]

If this works, I am going to be intrigued.

Sacrificing some sleep just to stay up and DL/install this.

[kalaratiri]

Downloaded and installed 4 programs last night, all of them work fine. Am I allowed to claim 'finders keepers'? :l

[Silas Vitalia]

On a side note those not interested in piracy or in paying the thousands of $$ to have this software,

Adobe has recently begun offering 'subscriptions' to the software, at extremly good prices.  You pay a monthly fee, use the software, and stop whenever you don't want to pay any more.  It's a very, very good deal for what you get.

[Lyn Farel]

 [nevermind, redacted]

[Katrina Oniseki]

On a side note those not interested in piracy or in paying the thousands of $$ to have this software,

Adobe has recently begun offering 'subscriptions' to the software, at extremly good prices.  You pay a monthly fee, use the software, and stop whenever you don't want to pay any more.  It's a very, very good deal for what you get.

I like that line of thinking. Fight piracy with better business models.

[Silas Vitalia]

On a side note those not interested in piracy or in paying the thousands of $$ to have this software,

Adobe has recently begun offering 'subscriptions' to the software, at extremly good prices.  You pay a monthly fee, use the software, and stop whenever you don't want to pay any more.  It's a very, very good deal for what you get.

I like that line of thinking. Fight piracy with better business models.

Well Adobe is doing 'always on' DRM sorts of things now, so the gyrations you need to do to get around them are becoming increasingly involved.  You have to basically spoof your local Adobe product into thinking it's dialed in and checked with the server. 

[Lyn Farel]

I don't feel guilty at all to pirate the Adobe CS considering the price. That's professional software, so it's affordable for companies, not for individuals, better business models or not.

The fact is that piracy done by isolated individual actually benefits them a lot.