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On Wednesday, December 13, 2017 at 5:32:45 PM UTC+1, nospam wrote:
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in other words, you are advocating pirating software, just as you do
with images taken from other web sites.

photoshop was one of the most pirated apps, if not *the* most pirated
app, along with other adobe software, which is why adobe moved to
activation over a decade ago and a major reason why they currently only
offer it as subscription. while not impossible, it's *much* harder to
pirate now.

How is it *much* harder?!

It's as easy as ever to pirate software, including
photoshop CC.

https://i.imgur.com/lnDloZF.png

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sobriquet wrote:

in other words, you are advocating pirating software, just as you do
with images taken from other web sites.

photoshop was one of the most pirated apps, if not *the* most pirated
app, along with other adobe software, which is why adobe moved to
activation over a decade ago and a major reason why they currently only
offer it as subscription. while not impossible, it's *much* harder to
pirate now.

How is it *much* harder?!

because it periodically pings adobe's servers to verify, versus
supplying a valid serial one time.

It's as easy as ever to pirate software, including
photoshop CC.

no it isn't.

that doesn't mean it's impossible, just that it's harder than it used
to be.

On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 10:08:23 PM UTC+1, nospam wrote:
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sobriquet wrote:

in other words, you are advocating pirating software, just as you do
with images taken from other web sites.

photoshop was one of the most pirated apps, if not *the* most pirated
app, along with other adobe software, which is why adobe moved to
activation over a decade ago and a major reason why they currently only
offer it as subscription. while not impossible, it's *much* harder to
pirate now.

How is it *much* harder?!

because it periodically pings adobe's servers to verify, versus
supplying a valid serial one time.

Oh really, and you think people who come up with cracks and
patches can't figure out how to to prevent the software from doing
this?
If you download the software from a torrent site, you have the
software and you can use it and there is no need whatsoever for
the software to keep in touch with adobe.


It's as easy as ever to pirate software, including
photoshop CC.

no it isn't.

that doesn't mean it's impossible, just that it's harder than it used
to be.

I've been using pirated copies of photoshop for a long time and
I haven't noticed any difference in how hard it was to fetch a
copy from p2p, apply the crack and enjoy the software.

If it was hard there wouldn't be so many people downloading a
copy from filesharing sites. That photoshop CC 2018 version on
rutracker in the screenshot has been downloaded over 17000 times.

In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

in other words, you are advocating pirating software, just as you do
with images taken from other web sites.

photoshop was one of the most pirated apps, if not *the* most pirated
app, along with other adobe software, which is why adobe moved to
activation over a decade ago and a major reason why they currently only
offer it as subscription. while not impossible, it's *much* harder to
pirate now.

How is it *much* harder?!

because it periodically pings adobe's servers to verify, versus
supplying a valid serial one time.

Oh really, and you think people who come up with cracks and
patches can't figure out how to to prevent the software from doing
this?

i didn't say they couldn't. i said it's harder.

If you download the software from a torrent site, you have the
software and you can use it and there is no need whatsoever for
the software to keep in touch with adobe.

if you download cracked software, it's already cracked.

It's as easy as ever to pirate software, including
photoshop CC.

no it isn't.

that doesn't mean it's impossible, just that it's harder than it used
to be.

I've been using pirated copies of photoshop for a long time

we know that.

and
I haven't noticed any difference in how hard it was to fetch a
copy from p2p, apply the crack and enjoy the software.

fetching an already cracked app is not the same as figuring out the
crack.

If it was hard there wouldn't be so many people downloading a
copy from filesharing sites. That photoshop CC 2018 version on
rutracker in the screenshot has been downloaded over 17000 times.

17000 is nothing.

On Monday, December 18, 2017 at 10:31:29 PM UTC+1, nospam wrote:
In article ,
sobriquet wrote:

in other words, you are advocating pirating software, just as you do
with images taken from other web sites.

photoshop was one of the most pirated apps, if not *the* most pirated
app, along with other adobe software, which is why adobe moved to
activation over a decade ago and a major reason why they currently only
offer it as subscription. while not impossible, it's *much* harder to
pirate now.

How is it *much* harder?!

because it periodically pings adobe's servers to verify, versus
supplying a valid serial one time.

Oh really, and you think people who come up with cracks and
patches can't figure out how to to prevent the software from doing
this?

i didn't say they couldn't. i said it's harder.

Harder? You mean they had to drink an extra cup of coffee to figure
out how to crack it?


If you download the software from a torrent site, you have the
software and you can use it and there is no need whatsoever for
the software to keep in touch with adobe.

if you download cracked software, it's already cracked.

No it's not. You install the uncracked software as a trial version
and then you apply the crack.


It's as easy as ever to pirate software, including
photoshop CC.

no it isn't.

that doesn't mean it's impossible, just that it's harder than it used
to be.

I've been using pirated copies of photoshop for a long time

we know that.

and
I haven't noticed any difference in how hard it was to fetch a
copy from p2p, apply the crack and enjoy the software.

fetching an already cracked app is not the same as figuring out the
crack.

Well, that's basically the idea of filesharing as it applies to
software. Someone cracks it and then all the other people can use
that crack and they don't have to waste time and energy coming up
with their own crack.


If it was hard there wouldn't be so many people downloading a
copy from filesharing sites. That photoshop CC 2018 version on
rutracker in the screenshot has been downloaded over 17000 times.

17000 is nothing.

It's just the latest version.. older versions have been downloaded
nearly 100000 times (like photoshop CC 2017).
If you add it all up (rutracker is just one of the many torrent
sites out there) it's millions of people enjoying the cracked
software. So it's not hard at all to pirate photoshop CC.

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sobriquet wrote:


i didn't say they couldn't. i said it's harder.

Harder? You mean they had to drink an extra cup of coffee to figure
out how to crack it?

much more than that.

photoshop 7, before adobe added activation and long before creative
cloud subscriptions, needed only a valid serial number, which were
widely distributed.

photoshop cc pings adobe's servers to verify it's active, so that check
must be spoofed somehow, which is more work than just typing in a known
valid serial number.