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> It's now impossible to get free/cracked versions of the latest PS because it's all cloud based now, but there is a large cohort of people using older versions

> It's now impossible to get free/cracked versions of the latest PS because it's all cloud based now, but there is a large cohort of people using older versions. That's objectively not true – I understand that there are a lot of cracked versions of the creative suite out there - perhaps a few months behind the latest release, but certainly not by much. As ever, this is the problem that makes me hate DRM: paying customers get a worse product. I have a legal license of CS6 and I am writing this comment on a Mac running 10.14 partly as a consequence (it is the last version of the OS to run 32 bit apps -- of which I have a fair few). I will not take out a subscription to Adobe to get a newer version -- I just will not do it. If I pirated everything, I'd be in a much "better position" in many ways.

legrande 5y ago
> I understand that there are a lot of cracked versions of the creative suite out there I haven't looked, but it's my understanding that you need an ADOBE login that you use to interact with Creative Suite, so by 'cloud based' I mean the software is all Internet facing now. There are probably workarounds for that in the warez scene however.
LeonB 5y ago
> this is the problem that makes me hate DRM: paying customers get a worse product Substitute the word “piracy” in place of DRM, and you’re closer to the cause. (Though I’d definitely concede that a lot of heavy-handed DRM and cloud-only is less about reducing “piracy” and more about controlling customers and enabling rent-seeking on a massive scale.)