Not my meme, I stole it from someone else. You wouldn’t know them, they go to a different community.

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    But in order to pirate their programs and not get bothered by “illegal software” popups, I need to block outbound access from their exe’s… so they’re actually not getting my datas

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    Or… How about using a different program instead of Adobe’s so that we van eventually change what the “industry standard” is?

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      The problem is having one singular “industry standard” in the first place. If Adobe is eventually dislodged for something else it would eventually become just as bad, because there would still be no meaningful competition to keep it in line.

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      Affinity is catching up every year, but they still have a ways to go to become an industry standard. I’m rooting for them every step of the way, though.

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        I’d argue that there is, but we are just too used to the Lightroom or Photoshop way of thinking/workflow. We don’t entertain other programs because it is difficult to learn a new way of doing things and return to a place of competency. And the less people use a piece of software, the less there will be documentation to help others learn.

        I’m not sure if its a conspiracy theory or verified, but I do think that Adobe were okay with people (amateurs) pirating their software. We didn’t have the money to pay for it anyway, but it got us to become proficient at using Photoshop so that when we eventually had money, we were locked in.

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    Minimum amount for photoshop is 22$/month

    Pirate photoshop

    Delete it

    Pirate again

    Repeat 30 times

    Adobe looses 660$

    If everyone does this adobe will loose so much

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    FireWall?

    Setup x2 rules for each .exe,
    one to block inbound connections,
    and another to block outbound connections.

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    Does anyone have a dumbed down tutorial for an internet noob who just uses transmission to torrent and just wants adobe acrobat (just acrobat, for the other things I have other programs, but I really need acrobat and it has to be acrobat)

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      I don’t know if linking to websites are legal here or not, so I’ll describe it in a roundabout way.

      Take the number ‘leet’, and an X. That is the domain name. to is the tld.

      In short, [leet (as a number) x] [dot] [to].

      Hope it makes sense. That website should have have the droids you are looking for. Just be cautious.

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    All my software is registered to Emanuel Goldstein of the PLoA ( Phone Losers of America ).

    I hope his identity is safe.

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    It is rough for creatives locked down by Adobe’s software since not many alternatives can do what they need it for.

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    I got Adobe CS2 for free, when they shut down the license servers. 😎 They later deleted download link and serial from their website.