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It appears they now have a hard redirect set up, so I would say this was a mistake.

Wouldn't Adobe stand to lose a lot of money, since people can use the upgrade path instead of a full purchase?

I imagine that would be a stopping block to making earlier versions free or very cheap.

They only offer upgrade pricing from CS5. They stopped offering upgrades prices to CS3 and CS4 owners at the end of 2012: