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Re:Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'c... by antifa on Thursday June 06, 2024 @10:33AM (#40597888)
A botnet that shows no evidence of saturating my CPU, RAM, disk, network? OK fine then.

Most malware these days does things like demand bitcoin, popup ads, or upload your files to the cloud without your consent.

If I've actually unknowingly downloaded a virus, it's honestly less malevolent than the paid version.

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Re:Photoshop ToS grants Adobe access to user projects for 'c... by freedomben on Thursday June 06, 2024 @12:43PM (#40599531)
> If I've actually unknowingly downloaded a virus, it's honestly less malevolent than the paid version.

This is a remarkable observation on the sad state of paid software. It's so sad because it's so true.

I don't mind buying software, but I do mind pretty much all DRM implementations. Even simple license checks have bitten me in the past when I had no internet access and the software just decided that time was up and it needed to verify me. Nothing fills me with rage more than software that I paid for refusing to run while I'm camping or on a plane or somewhere else without internet, for software that doesn't need any networt functionality whatsoever to operate.

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