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Re:Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract by Abishek_Muthian on Saturday February 05, 2022 @11:17PM (#30229364)
Also pirates, be reminded that Adobe indulges in very aggressive practices to target you.

At least in India I've met people on unrelated events working for companies claiming to be contracted by Adobe to target small-business, raid their office and make them pay huge sums of money on the pretext of suing them for piracy of their products.

One such person, told me that they got their previous employer into trouble with Adobe due to bad blood. It's definitely not legal for a private entity to raid a premise in India, But I guess these companies have 'what it takes' to make that happen.

So it's not worth it to pirate adobe products, Especially when there are better tools available[1].

[1] https://startuptoolchain.com/#design (I maintain this).

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Re:Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract by sshine on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:40AM (#30230315)
It’s not worth it to pirate Adobe products... in India. I’m not sure how this story translates to countries that don’t have anti-piracy mobs that raid offices.
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Re:Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract by Abishek_Muthian on Sunday February 06, 2022 @04:48AM (#30230953)
True maybe more subtle elsewhere, But the risks of piracy is not zero anywhere.
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