----- Original Message -----
From: "Randy Little" <randyslittle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
<photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 11:48 PM
Subject: Re: phree photoshop
Its not free it for people who OWN cs2 because the lic servers are going
down. If you don't own a lic and you download this you are still
pirating.
yeah no.
Pirating is copying and selling software or ther copyright material, the
apologists to industry might *want* users of illicit software to be viewed
as pirates but they are not. Even Pirates may even be Bad People by
breaching copyright, but copyright breaches are simply that, and liable to
civil action - aside from the US and similar countries where *certain*
copyright breaches have been uprated to criminal breaches due to pressure by
industry lobbies to have the populations labelled criminals by virtue of
their existence.
If the law were honest it would be a criminal matter everytime somneone
photocopied a book. Though I see that in the US there are moves afoot to
prohibit loaning, selling or giving away old music CD's, books and other
copyright material - not a good way to go.. and currently you can be
prosecuted for destroying CD's of music under certain legislation in place.
Heck, I'd love to be able to call my federal authorities every time someone
pinched one of my pictures. (Actually I wouldn't, it's a power disparity
that should not exist)
The downloader and user of the software are compliant with the terms of the
EULA.
Tell me, have you ever left the USofA? Did you take your phone or a laptop?
Did you declare to the appropriate authorities that you were doing so, and
obtain the appropriate and security clearance license to export this or did
you illegally shipping encryption software and algorithms out of the
country? - a federal offence - Heaven help you if you had onion or tor
software, I understand that is still requires the appropriate munitions
license!
k
(I always wanted to be a pirate.. or a ninja)
footnote:
the music indstry saw it's biggest increase in sales *ever* the year Napster
P2P was introduced as it did the same for music as radio did decades before,
it introduced people to music they otherwise had no access to. Sales have
dropped slightly since then - slightly.. but they still have yet to drop
below the pre-Napster sales figures.
The film industry has seen massive losses for movies of late simply because
mass communication has enabled reviewers to pan rotten movies via their
mobiles while watching the premiers. Gone are the days where they could
roll movies out slowly across the globe, duping new audiences into paying
for tripe. However some (good) movies have made astonishing returns for
doing what they're supposed to do - entertaining us and doing it well, ie
District 9
All industries will see saturated sales. Growth is not permanent - many
Highly Paid and Well Educated people fail to grasp the concept of saturated
markets. Exec's might have dreams about the exponential growth they saw
across the short time of adoption, but like the computer market, that
massive growth ends as sales plateau - what we're seeing now is the violent
death throws of big corporations as they turn on the very consumers they
depend on.
There is evidence that some new software, particularly games, block access
to certain websites once installed - without alerting the user that this is
being done. This IS illegal.
Sony music CD's installed rootkit viruses on millions of computers around
the world. This IS illegal.
Adobe has produces some of the most invasive, poorly coded and botched
software ever, they have broken standards to extort and force upgrades and
they have broken users PAID software for the same purpose (new versions of
reader breaking old versions of Actrobat creator) - this is borderline
illegal.. but who has the clout to take them to task over this?
for the record, I care not a wit as I use cleaner, faster and better coded
software for editing images - PS is nice for graphic designers (though
vector based programs would be better than the archaic bitmap based stuff)
but again, they nailed almost everything in their earlier incarnations, new
tools added are often freely available elsewhere that do the job faster once
extricated from the clutches of the adobe monster. For those who want the
CS2 version, Adobe appear to have made it freely available online, their
EULA appears to suggest by obtaining it from Adobe and using the provided
serial, the user of this software would be legitimate.
Finally, Abobe is aware of the page, links and serials. Adobe can take this
page down any time they choose.. This suggests they would be complicit in
this software distribution and thus are offering tacet approval.
