I always wonder if a situation like this is legal. If I purchased a product and want to keep using it, what right does the seller have to prevent me from doing so x years later?
Can I sue them for not selling me the product they said they were selling me?
Isn’t it a moot point anyway because nobody ever “buys” software, they just obtain a license to use it. Ownership is such a convoluted concept in tech, particularly in software.
Then despite probably "authenticating" itself to the xbone, won't actually run unless the disk is in the drive.
(don't get me started on how bad the UI is, I really haven't any idea why gamers love those little machines so much, they are mostly just trash).
Well, depends on the country. In Germany that's not a thing because contract law doesn't allow it. Either you buy software or you rent it.
You did purchase the software after all, and unless you are illegally distributing it I see it as a perfectly fine thing to do whatever you want within your own private residence.
Err, umm, no. You purchased a license to use the software.
If you have the disks, you bought a copy of it, just like you bought a copy of a book, not a license to read it's pages.
Ofcourse it has to be tested in court, unlikely Adobe will even sue if they knew. I don't think they care one way or another. And the customer using cs2 still is unlikely to sue as it's not going to be a large enterprise.
This is just laziness from Adobe , older servers take effort to maintain. They could be using keys that have expired to be signing the auth request for example.
You own a CPU. Because you own that CPU, you get to play gatekeeper and decide which parts of that bytearray go to your CPU and which ones don't. That's not for Adobe to decide.
The bytearray they send you is just a suggestion of what to run on your CPU. They provided you a suggestion in return for a payment.
You don't have to run all of that suggestion. You can selectively run parts of it.
I guess you can use them as frisbees.
That said, my moral interpretation of closed-source software is that I can do whatever the hell I want with it as long as I'm not distributing it to others without permission. Anything that enters my private residence, whether it be a CD I may have bought, or a very long byte array that got transmitted into my internal LAN in return for a payment, is fair game for me to do anything I want with, as long as it doesn't reach anyone outside.
The devil is in the details.
I felt the same way about the whole Sonos recyling thing too...
But regardless of that, your damages would be limited to what you spent on the license. So definitely not worth your time.
But it could be a class action suit, and if you're the class representative you can get larger compensation.
Class action perhaps? Or small claims at the other end?
What is the value of the years it takes to become proficient with such software? Remember, that investment was made on the back of the idea that the software would continue to be usable.
Also, did CS6 stop working? The only stories I see are CS2 and CS3.
[1] https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/cc/en/legal/licenses-terms...
That actually doesn't matter if the terms are unreasonable.
Courts commonly understand that one-sided unreasonable licenses are unenforceable when litigated.
Here’s [1] the CS3 license. It states a 90 day warranty, which is certainly legally a standard warranty. Section 14.8.1 states Adobe can disable the activation server.
So yep, looks like this was covered in the license. I doubt a court is going to rule Adobe must provide a server indefinitely.
[1] https://labs.adobe.com/technologies/eula/photoshopcs3.html