Adobe adopts product activation

[Ray Austin]

can you imagine if every software company did this.

This sux bad! I can understand their point, but if your system is not connected to the internet now with WinXP you have to call Msft and now Adobe.

Why don't they just make a motherboard dongle of some sort.

The people who paid for the softwares shouldn't be penalized!!!

Read the sad news here........

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030808.gtadobe0808/BNStory/Technology/

[Dr Mordrid]

No suprise really given how their finances have been going the last few years; all but Acrobat and a couple other products have barely been breaking even. They're doing better this quarter, but there are still problems in Adobeland.

Dr. Mordrid

[paulw]

One good reason not to buy Adobe. I wonder how people get on who have duel partition systems. One for testing and one for editing on.. I asume Adobe will want you to to buy two copies of Prem..

Good thing I went to MSPRO 5.2 and dropped Premiere 4.2 some years ago..

Any one remember M$ saying that product activation would stop piracy and the price would come down. Yep pigs mite fly as well..

[UtwigMU]

With XP activation (it was legal OS at work) the machine one day wanted to have activation on every boot - it was AthlonXP in small case with poor cooling and weak PSU.


I called MS (because of this we couldn't use the machine adequately) and they wouldn't do nothing, no tech support no advice, nothing.

So here's my stance:
AutoCAD, 3D StudioMAX and the like wanted activation since forewer and people have cracked them and used them.

This will just prevent some casual copying.

Moral stance: If it's a production machine, all software should be legal and paid for.

[Ted222]

One of Premiere's big selling points is being able to edit lower resolution files on your Laptop and then finish the edit on a Desktop. I hope they allow for that situation. I am not doing it yet, but I plan to do a lot of traveling, and taking the Laptop for editing would be nice.

Ted

[Ray Austin]

Crikey! last place I'd expect to see a girl... not that I would discriminate.

[Tjalfe]

uhm... it is a picture of the matrox marketing girl in Europe.. well the poster girl..

[Ray Austin]

Originally posted by tjalfe
uhm... it is a picture of the matrox marketing girl in Europe.. well the poster girl..

Aaahhh that explains it.... she could make me write a few bad checks!!!

[wkulecz]

Don't buy products that require "activation" and they will go away. Buy 'em and bitch -- activations will be everywhere with pay-per-use sure to follow.

It seems to have worked once already:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,3973,1088341,00.asp

--wally.

[Ray Austin]

Wally..... I am so with you man!!!!

I am going to start hunting adobe next.

I'll let you gize know where to post your gripes to very shortly....


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