FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by starkparker on Monday June 17, 2024 @03:58PM (#40710336)

Interesting. I just installed a copy of CS4 Design Premium and InDesign CS5.5 without issue. Looks like CS5+ still has live activation servers, and CS4 didn't seem to care that its were gone.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by whycome on Monday June 17, 2024 @05:08PM (#40711091)

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite.html

"CREATIVE SUITE 2, 3, AND 4 You can no longer reinstall Creative Suite 2, 3 or 4 even if you have the original installation disks. The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired. "

Those poor servers.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by starkparker on Monday June 17, 2024 @07:47PM (#40712560)

I know, I read that too. And I also have an official boxed copy of CS4 Design Premium that I installed from the DVDs, which loads and works without issue. Weird!

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by jimbobthrowawy on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @01:13AM (#40714266)

I don't think I tried with anything older than CS5 stuff, but blocking the program in the firewall and putting in any valid CD key (people posted them online) worked flawlessly.

I assume it worked this way so people with airgapped machines could still be sold the software.

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Re:FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations by Lammy on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:08AM (#40714906)

An activation-free version of CS3 was available for about a year after the activation shutdown. You had to create an Adobe account, provide your original serial number, and get a new offline installer and new offline serial number to use with it.

Source: have Offline CS3 Master Collection and use PS CS3 daily to clean up my flatbed scans https://i.imgur.com/8tS8ced.png

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