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Do Adobe have a death wish?.
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Or as the article states, whatever licences Adobe had for parts of the software packages listed have run out and Adobe are informing their customers that they open themselves up to potential legal action for using partly unlicensed software. Adobe bashing seems to be the internet's favourite pastime at the moment but this is actually good customer service from them in letting customers know. Imagine if they hadn't sent this email out and then a company got sued for using an old version of PS with unlicensed software contained in it. They literally can't win
Or as the article states, whatever licences Adobe had for parts of the software packages listed have run out and Adobe are informing their customers that they open themselves up to potential legal action for using partly unlicensed software. Adobe bashing seems to be the internet's favourite pastime at the moment but this is actually good customer service from them in letting customers know. Imagine if they hadn't sent this email out and then a company got sued for using an old version of PS with unlicensed software contained in it. They literally can't win
I get what you say, but if I purchased a version of Photoshop a few years ago and am still using it beacuase it still works then how am I using an unlicensed product?
Sounds like that's exactly what Adobe did!I'm sure that's handled in the huge licensing agreement that everybody clicks they agree to without ever reading.
One third party application which is included in LR is Google Maps. You can only access Google Maps from current versions of LR cc. If you try old stand alone versions, Google Maps is no longer available. I suspect that this is because Google are now collecting a regular fee which Adobe can cover in its monthly fee but cannot for old versions as there is no income. You cannot have the most up-to-date version of LR cc on W8 anyway though I think this W8 is still OK.
Dave
I get what you say, but if I purchased a version of Photoshop a few years ago and am still using it because it still works then how am I using an unlicensed product?
That makes sense but what do you mean by W8?
Tens of thousands of people have been using pirated illegal Abobe software since they started and they cant even sue them or even deter them lol.
Adobe has been accused of underpaying royalties to Dolby. They have now moved to nativeOS support for Dobly codecs and thus want everyone to stop using their licensed codecs from Dolby. Perpetual license users need not worry apparently as a cost per perpetual license was already in place. Its only the cloud versions that have a problem.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/03/14/a_dolby_sues_adobe_for_dodging_cloud_license_fees/
Regards...
And people wonder why they went down the subscription route.... Everyone on here would rightly be aggrieved if some stole their images but the same people would have quite happily used a pirated version of Photoshop to process that image
From court documents:I'm left wondering how Dolby has anything to do with LR or PS for that matter.
16 - For fifteen years, between approximately 2002 and 2017, Adobe benefited from numerous Dolby Technologies that enabled Adobe’s software products. In that time, Adobe incorporated Dolby Technologies in many popular Adobe software products including, but not limited to, Adobe’s Audition, After Effects, Encore, Lightroom, Media Encoder, Prelude, Premiere Elements, and Premiere Pro products.
17 - Dolby Technologies delivered functionality in these Adobe products by encoding and/or decoding high-quality digital audio.
That's an interesting accusation to make here. I suspect you'll find the vast majority of TP users have purchased their software in good faith - like Kell for example - and would not consider pirated software. This why there is a loud and aggrieved group of people who feel like Adobe are not a good company.
You however seem to be very fond of adobe - employee by any chance?
Guessing at Windows 8.
Or as the article states, whatever licences Adobe had for parts of the software packages listed have run out and Adobe are informing their customers that they open themselves up to potential legal action for using partly unlicensed software.
Adobe bashing seems to be the internet's favourite pastime at the moment but this is actually good customer service from them in letting customers know.
This problem was caused by Adobe. They took peoples money and messed up.They literally can't win
It looks like it's still available as a download, though not useful without a license key.
I would hate to have to move on from LR as I rely on the catalogue for searches having rated, colour coded and keyworded my images for a decade.
A bit misleading from the Lightroom Queen, really.........
I've downloaded it in case I ever get a license key and then struggle to find it, so she was useful to that extent.
i've jsut sent a post to the Lightroom Forum asking if she can clarify those links.
Apologies for the misunderstanding. For clarity, I should have started that sentence with "if you need to reinstall your perpetually licensed version...". The previous downloader page has gone missing during their website rejig, but that's the new location. It hasn't been made available for sale again, so this is just for people who already have a license.i've jsut sent a post to the Lightroom Forum asking if she can clarify those links.