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I randomly happened upon eBay listings for CS6 earlier today. I was slightly staggered to see that a legitimate copy is going for ˜600-700EUR on eBay - that's
by mft_ 3y ago
I randomly happened upon eBay listings for CS6 earlier today. I was slightly staggered to see that a legitimate copy is going for ˜600-700EUR on eBay - that's ˜11-year-old software!
Presumably this is because it's the last version that's non-subscription? I wonder if prices have actually been appreciating?
- benbristow 3y agoSurprising as those copies are quite easily 'available' with a copy + paste of a certain version of amtlib.dll
- agumonkey 3y agoamtlib is the verification logic vendor ?
- Zetobal 3y agoFor now, Adobe is trying out (opt in basis) a more invasive kernel module.
- jwells89 3y agoThat’s not likely to work out well for the Mac version with how Apple has been steadily working towards removing support for third party kernel extensions in macOS. I wonder what they’ll resort to after that comes to pass.
- benbristow 3y agoLet's say the 'replacement' dll file isn't very good at verification.
- agumonkey 3y agoyeah, I was just curious if this was the whole security point in their software.
- mft_ 3y agoMy assumption was that this would be attractive to businesses who have a need for some of the CSx suite but not the absolute cutting edge, and being a business only want to run legitimate software.
- crtasm 3y agoBut are people buying at that price? It doesn't mean a great deal otherwise.
- mft_ 3y agoI obviously have no data on this question, but there were enough copies around that price to suggest it was roughly the market rate.
- crtasm 3y agoYou can check on ebay - filter for "Sold items", then untick "Completed items" to see only ones that sold. There are some selling for around £400, but also some auctions went for around £150.
- mft_ 3y agoThanks - didn't know that was possible. On ebay.de, seeing a bunch sold between ˜€500 and ˜€700, including one sale of Photoshop (only) for €799...