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I randomly happened upon eBay listings for CS6 earlier today. I was slightly staggered to see that a legitimate copy is going for ˜600-700EUR on eBay - that's ˜11-year-old software!

Presumably this is because it's the last version that's non-subscription? I wonder if prices have actually been appreciating?

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Surprising as those copies are quite easily 'available' with a copy + paste of a certain version of amtlib.dll

amtlib is the verification logic vendor ?

For now, Adobe is trying out (opt in basis) a more invasive kernel module.

That’s not likely to work out well for the Mac version with how Apple has been steadily working towards removing support for third party kernel extensions in macOS. I wonder what they’ll resort to after that comes to pass.

Let's say the 'replacement' dll file isn't very good at verification.

yeah, I was just curious if this was the whole security point in their software.

My assumption was that this would be attractive to businesses who have a need for some of the CSx suite but not the absolute cutting edge, and being a business only want to run legitimate software.

But are people buying at that price? It doesn't mean a great deal otherwise.

I obviously have no data on this question, but there were enough copies around that price to suggest it was roughly the market rate.

You can check on ebay - filter for "Sold items", then untick "Completed items" to see only ones that sold.

There are some selling for around £400, but also some auctions went for around £150.

Thanks - didn't know that was possible.

On ebay.de, seeing a bunch sold between ˜€500 and ˜€700, including one sale of Photoshop (only) for €799...

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