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…
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.
This reminds me of the time that Malwarebytes revoked 3 of my perpetual licenses that I bought before they moved over to a subscription model. Sorry, I told them I was never going to stop talking shit about them until the day I die, so I take any opportunity to bitch about it
I have a frozen license with them which they’ll reactivate once I give them the receipt information they didn’t send me when I bought it from them…
Fuck Adobe.
OP, Louis Rossmann would love to hear your story. He makes videos about anti-consumer shenanigans like this.
GenP e ciao
Yep, GenP is what I used for Substance Painter.
There doesn’t appear to be a lemmy community for it yet, but the old subreddit is still active.
How are they different to monkrus? Am curious
Monkrus is GenP, but prepackaged into the installer, if I’m remembering the GenP subreddit wiki correctly.
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They were right, they are an untrustworthy seller.
Reminds me of when all their customer data leaked, and obviously the people who pirated didn’t have that issue.
If the program is EOL why do they care if you use it or not? Like fuck thats really a nasty way on making you buy the new software. But you know what? If you are looking for a better version. Translate to Spanish Pirate Artist and you can find it there.
You answered your own question. If OP can’t use it, maybe they’ll buy a subscription, thinks Adobe.
Super scummy.
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This is what drives people to piracy. Then they whine about how pirates cost them money.
They didn’t whine about it even once here. They whined about their own untrustworthiness, which I can’t argue with.
What’s fumny to me is I remember watching a computer show on TV in late 90s they where interviewing an Adobe representative about the new Photoshop 5.0…
The TV host asked what adobe though about pirated copies and the representative said on LIVE TV that Photoshop price was for professional who make a living out of Photoshop and that any hobbyist had nothing to fear about using a pirated copy as it only served to get more people knowledgable about Photoshop and if these started doing business in photography and neede Photoshop they would then pay for it so to not be unprofessional.
Probably weren’t public by then.
Microsoft low key had the same stance back in the late 80s to mid 90s and it definitely helped cement their dominance.
I remember this as well. Their whole stance was that they’d get get everyone using Photoshop even if people had to pirate it. That’s part of how it became the industry standard.
Metallica vs. Napster
Same story, retold by adobe
I would love it if you took them to small claims court on this. We all love piracy, but I would also love to see how that case turned out.
Just use Inkscape already.
Inkscape is a vector editor, and OP didn’t say whether they used CS5 (which is a suite of different software applications) for only vector graphics.
Inkscape + gimp + Blender
All suites covered?
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no! you forgot kdenlive
Thanks!
Great reminder: just found out about kdenlive a few days ago, I still need to learn that one
Send this to Luis Rossman. He’ll have a fieldday with this shit.
Agrees. Definitely send this to Louis. The tirade will be funny, at the very least.
Sent OP’s thread to email on his business’s semi-hidden contact page
(sorry for the spam Louis, lotta us instantly thought of you - hope it translates to some awareness, action, & Adsense revenue)
Nice!
OP please forward this email and your story to Louis Rossman
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.
I like darktable for photography
Darktable if you’re ok with a steep learning curve, RawTherapee if you prefer an easier-to-use UI with a few less features.
Ya it’s a pretty unique ui and you really need to sit down and take your time to find everything
Maybe you can just install a pirated copy for them?
Yes please! This story makes me so sad 😞
