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"The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired." Cry me a river - Adobe can't afford to keep an old server running? At least be honest about t
by abraae 6y ago
"The aging activation servers for those apps had to be retired."
Cry me a river - Adobe can't afford to keep an old server running?
At least be honest about the motivation.
- eli 6y agoRelease a patch to remove the check and you don’t need to worry about it.
- SoylentYellow 6y agoThis should be a requirement enforced by legislation.
- paledot 6y agoTruly. Also, if your device depends on a cloud service to function, you must open-source the service if you choose to EOL it.
- zamalek 6y agoIANAL, it is now abandonware and can be legally cracked (legislation past year or two).
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI’m also not a lawyer, but I’m pretty sure that’s not a thing, at least in the US. Downloading/distributing abandonware is still piracy, it’s just much less likely anyone will care.
- zamalek 6y agoI remember The Internet Archive celebrating the fact that the "do not tamper" clause was no longer legal for abandonware (as they host tons of abandonware that has been cracked, e.g. Win 95). But I could be wrong.
- jonathan-neil 6y agoWould be great if you tried to look up that information and cite your claim.
- zamalek 6y agoYou're absolutely correct to call me out on that (I was on my phone), thankfully a fellow HNer found the specific legislation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865881 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865881
- srtjstjsj 6y agoYou're wrong. Cracking your own software is always legal, and making illegal copies is always not, regardless of cracks.
- ByteJockey 6y agoThat's not how the DMCA works. Circumventing these measure is completely illegal. It's just that doing it on your own software is very unlikely to have anyone find out. But it's a problem for researchers, who generally want to publish their findings (or at least was the last time I was really paying attention to the law in the early to mid 00s).
- hajile 6y agoI think this is what they're talking about > Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works > Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace. https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2006/index.html
- Dylan16807 6y agoNo, the dumb legal protections against actually cracking it go away. A typical crack is likely just a few bytes to change. Maybe in multiple places.
- Lammy 6y agoThey did! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865636 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865636
- interestica 6y agoThose are no longer available.
- Lammy 6y agoYes. That makes it worse lol
- userbinator 6y agoOthers have already released that patch. ;-)
- agumonkey 6y agoanybody ever tried to reverse the protocol and shim the server ?
- tclancy 6y agoYou heartless bastard, they were so old. One day until retirement!
- JoshGlazebrook 6y agoThis reminds me of the old ESO servers for age of mythology/empires. Microsoft bought ESO, eventually I think in the late 00s they shut down the online multiplayer servers. But they weren't really shutdown, the certificate had actually expired. If you started up fiddler2 and did a little tinkering you could actually get connected to the servers through the game again.