Adobe: A Disgusting, Criminal Company

8:10 , For some reason the image got deleted quoting the terms of service. My apologies!

pirating adobe products is morally correct

Another scummy company is Autodesk.

A lot of people don’t realise that when a product gets wrapped as a service, there’s another catch, that you are on the latest version and you have no choice. If the latest version breaks something that matters to you, TOUGH!!

I urge everyone to not use adobe products. Not even to pirate them. The less the industry relies on them the sooner correct changes will be made. I've been loving using the Affinity suite and Davinci resolve for video work. Short of Adobe being the industry standard they're just better products, less prone to crashes too

Imagine the future… Adobe decides to double or even triple the monthly subscription fee… and there’s nothing you can do about it. This is why subscription software is a fucking con.

Fun fact: adobe switched to a subscription model not because it made more money, but because subscriptions are taxed different and it lowered their tax bill.

I refuse to use "software as a service" for simple practical reasons; I don't know what my financial situation may be in the future, and if I had to cancel the subscription then any files I've created with it become useless. It means I have to pay what amounts to a ransom to unlock the data I created in the past. That just is not acceptable to me.

moved away permanently from adobe products , my clients also agree with this they're in the process of moving away from these criminals as well. adobe will have fun training their ai with poisoned images i left in cloud.

Affinity, Final Cut Pro and Capture One got me away from Adobe forever

After realizing that their buggy application codebase is from 90's. They are years behind.

Back in the day, I made stuff for giant clients like COCA-COLA, PEPSI, HEINEKEN, CITIBANK, NIKE, SAMSUNG, BMW, and whole bunch of others, using Photoshop 5.5 which you can literally copy and paste on as many computers as you want. It doesn't even require an installation. If I could land such customers 20+ years ago with PS 5.5 which I STILL use sometimes, it proves that YOU DO NOT NEED the latest gimmick in order to be creative. Its the artist, not the tool. The tool certainly helps, but don't give the "modern versions" more credit than they deserve.

Freehand, flash, authorware and fireworks were amazing. Macromedia had better web technology and were in a position to dominate. Massive fail selling to Adobe.

I read somewhat recently that Adobe doesn't care about individual people pirating their "products" because they make so much from business licenses/contracts that it doesn't matter. See how long that lasts now that so many companies are realizing how bottom of the barrel Adobe is.

That's why I sail the high seas.

Few years back I found a sealed Adobe creative suite box at a thrift store. $3, with fully legal Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, After Effects etc. I was so glad. That's what I've been using ever since. Refused all of Adobe's cloud advances. Do not care what features they've added later on. As long as EXR support is present, I can work. With older software, I can go back all the way to Windows 7 if I want to, on older computers, and still have all of my tools. Will even work on 32-bit OS. What's not to love! I haven't had to buy anything else from Adobe ever and not going to. I know, that according to Adobe, people aren't supposed to use their old products. They want to dictate when you buy stuff, and I raise the middle finger to that. I bought my legal copies of software fair and square. It's all legal. I can show them my $3 receipt.

Have always pirated their software, 50$ per month is absolutely not acceptable for what the software is. I now feel really great about it. Not only that, I keep the pirated adobe software running behind a firewall where it doesn’t have any internet access.

So if you are under NDA for a project you are working on who is legally liable when Adobe scrapes that confidential content? Using Adobe products is now potential legal liability for the user.

When CS6 was announced as the last Creative Suite, I bought it, thinking I would just own it. The problem is that Adobe had delayed their 64-Bit transition longer than any other company out there, and once the CS6 sales had peaked, CC came and soon after, 64-Bit. Apple moved forward (I cannot blame them for this; all decent companies had done their 64-Bit transition years ago, under some pressure from Apple to keep things up to date), and I lost access to CS6. Since then, I have owned zero Adobe products. If they ever decide to release another versions of CS (not CC) and give all their CS6 customers a free upgrade, I would use it again. Under all other circumstances I will never touch Adobe products again in my life.

our government school in india taught us to download office and photoshop for free... it's impossible for unemployed students like us who can't get a job without a degree to afford hundreds of dollars in subscriptions