Adobe Creative suite CS2 (including photoshop $ illustrator) is free now

This may not be the value it seems to be. These are pretty antique as far as applications go, and might be okay to learn the basics with before getting a "real version," but you're going to have trouble working with industry folk using them. They were originally released in 2005. If you run OS X Lion or later, you'll probably have better luck booting into a Windows VM or using WINE or CrossOver than getting the Mac versions going:

Mac OS X v.10.2.8–v.10.3.8. PowerPC® G4 or G5 processor

Microsoft® Windows® 2000/Windows XP. Intel® Pentium® III or 4 processor

They're also not eligible for upgrade pricing to Creative Cloud (CS3+). Most professionals I work with upgrade every couple of versions; I don't know anyone still using even CS4, for example.

Wow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#CS2

The Standard Edition included:

    Adobe Bridge (Since CS2)
    Adobe Illustrator
    Adobe InDesign
    Adobe Photoshop  
    Adobe Version Cue
    Design guide and training resources

The Premium Edition also included:

    Adobe Acrobat Professional (Version 8 in CS2.3)
    Adobe Dreamweaver (Since CS2.3)
    Adobe GoLive

Uhm, it requires registration and a known serial number. Were you advocating any particular actions to extrapolate that into "free"?

Site seems down now.

you need to register a adobe account to download.