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If you Google around Adobe released a statement saying that those CS2 downloads and provided serial number are for customers who bought CS2. Adobe switched off

• lotsofmangos 12y ago
  They are undoubtedly for those customers, but legally you have to enforce copyrights to keep them. There is no way that Adobe could argue that they are still enforcing copyright restrictions on the binaries of CS2.
  • nandhp 12y ago
    You're confusing copyright with trademarks. Trademarks must be defended if you want to keep them (this is logical: if other people are using them, they are no longer a mark of your trade). That doesn't apply to copyright; it's an entirely automatic process.
    • lotsofmangos 12y ago
      You are right. Thinking it through you can of course put a restrictive license on stuff that is publicly available, otherwise of course open source would not work. What Adobe may have done is confused their original license terms by posting a download with key, so a court is very unlikely to award more than nominal damages should Adobe get annoyed with it being used, but you are perfectly correct, their copyright still holds up.
• userbinator 12y ago
  Adobe's actions and disclaimer on the downloads is interesting - they seem to be using vague legal language, e.g. using "may not" instead of "must not", deleting posts on its forum that claim using those downloads without a license is illegal, etc. To me it looks like they're just trying to discourage it somewhat officially; given their rather lax stance on piracy, they probably believe it's better that someone uses unlicensed CS2 than something non-Adobe.