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Unfortunately it's a very different story for CS6 and other versions of CS. Adobe have removed all the public links to the installers, which are now only available by contacting Adobe Support, a process some customers are finding far from straightforward:
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2620448
Luckily I've just managed to locate my original CS6 installer. While poking around the Adobe forums, I came across some interesting links about CS3:
https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/creative-suite/kb/activation-fails-cs3-acrobat-8.html
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2385900
As with CS2, Adobe have switched off the activation servers and provided a modified version with a licence key that can be installed without activation, which I guess means CS3 is the most recent version that can be used completely outside Adobe's online control - all you need is the new offline installers and key (and possibly the installation tips in the second link). Unlike the activation-free CS2 downloads, they aren't giving this away to everyone - you need an original CS3 key to access the downloads. Since I have a valid CS3 Design Standard key, I grabbed the downloads before this page follows the equivalent CS2 page into online oblivion the next time they rejig the website. I'd advise anyone using CS3 (still a very capable version) to do the same.
In case anyone stumbles across this discussion in the future, the CS3 links no longer work and Adobe has killed all re-installations of CS3 and earlier, unless you already have the (now unavailable) activation-free installers:
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/t...a-question-for-you.717477/page-2#post-8810940
For further details, see post #3, above:
https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/adobe-shouts-update-or-get-sued.696082/post-8441956