PS CS and activation story

funny as hell.
2003 is an interesting year !

frank

So there I was at home in the computer room. I’m at my primary computer, and my "secondary computer" (as defined by Adobe) is behind me across the room at the other desk. My wife comes in and sits down at my "secondary computer" and is reading an email on her identity in Outlook Express (only one user account on the XP machine there, but two identities in outlook express). Her friend sends her a picture through means of email and she opens it up. It’s a pretty silly looking picture. She giggles. She wants to make it look even sillier. She calls in our daughter to have fun with the picture. She tells me she is going to do that.

She tells me she is going to do that with PHOTOSHOP! (scary, low background music)

DAMN I FREAK!!! "NOOOOO…. you can’t do that", I say. (as she’s opening up PS CS on my "secondary machine") I say, "don’t let that app open until I’ve got this one shut down!!!!! – watch out!!!!!) She is terrified. My daughter begins to cry as my anger turns up a couple notches. If that opens up before this is shut down, AND I’m not the main user, you will be in BIG, BIG trouble, I say. She is totally freaking out at my red, puffed up face and bulging veins in my neck… I’m pulling her away from the computer with my left hand, kicking my daughter in the hip with my right foot, as my right hand fights it’s way into the top desk drawer pulling out the Product License Agreement for PS CS. "Look!!", I say. "the secondary computer is RESTRICTED to the main user who licensed the software!!!" "Don’t you get it????" "Are you trying to get me put in jail or something???"
As I’m kickin’ ’em both away from the computer, the dog jumps in on my side and begins kicking my wife’s and daughter’s asses. (Thank you Pico!) Later that night, as I’m tending to my fingernail wounds on my arms and face, bite marks from my daughter on my ankles and legs, and after the cops have gone back to the station, I tell mself that it was all worth it. I would truly do it all again. Nothing….. I mean NOTHING will come in the way of my legal obligations to Adobe. Not my marriage. Not my daugther… NOTHING!!!!
Yes. I am a true loyal Adobe customer. I am true to the cause. "I" am the licensee; not her. I vow to NEVER let a soul open that app while I’m using it on the primary station.

God Damnit Adobe…. I say unto you: "To death till us part."

Signed:

Loyal Adobe Customer Since 1997-8ish.

I just purchased a new computer for about $2,000. I figure it will cost me about $3,000 more to re-purchase Microsoft Office Pro, Adobe Photoshop and a few other "registered" titles that self destruct if moved. So you have 2 solutions: either keep the old computer to run registered software, which defeats the purpose of buying it, or spend countless hours online begging for a new registration key from vendors who don’t believe that you aren’t passing the program along to someone else. THAT’s boring.

So there I was at home in the computer room. I’m at my primary computer,

my "secondary computer" (as defined by Adobe) is behind me across the room at the other desk. My wife comes in and sits down at my "secondary

and is reading an email on her identity in Outlook Express (only one user account on the XP machine there, but two identities in outlook express).

friend sends her a picture through means of email and she opens it up.

a pretty silly looking picture. She giggles. She wants to make it look

sillier. She calls in our daughter to have fun with the picture. She tells me she is going to do that.

She tells me she is going to do that with PHOTOSHOP! (scary, low

music)

DAMN I FREAK!!! "NOOOOO…. you can’t do that", I say. (as she’s opening

PS CS on my "secondary machine") I say, "don’t let that app open until

got this one shut down!!!!! – watch out!!!!!) She is terrified. My

begins to cry as my anger turns up a couple notches. If that opens up

this is shut down, AND I’m not the main user, you will be in BIG, BIG trouble, I say. She is totally freaking out at my red, puffed up face and bulging veins in my neck… I’m pulling her away from the computer with my left hand, kicking my daughter in the hip with my right foot, as my right hand fights it’s way into the top desk drawer pulling out the Product License Agreement for PS CS. "Look!!", I say. "the secondary computer is RESTRICTED to the main user who licensed the software!!!" "Don’t you get it????" "Are you trying to get me put in jail or something???"
As I’m kickin’ ’em both away from the computer, the dog jumps in on my

and begins kicking my wife’s and daughter’s asses. (Thank you Pico!) Later that night, as I’m tending to my fingernail wounds on my arms and face,

marks from my daughter on my ankles and legs, and after the cops have gone back to the station, I tell mself that it was all worth it. I would truly

it all again. Nothing….. I mean NOTHING will come in the way of my legal obligations to Adobe. Not my marriage. Not my daugther… NOTHING!!!!
Yes. I am a true loyal Adobe customer. I am true to the cause. "I" am the licensee; not her. I vow to NEVER let a soul open that app while I’m using it on the primary station.

God Damnit Adobe…. I say unto you: "To death till us part."

Signed:

Loyal Adobe Customer Since 1997-8ish.

No 21" monitor here and no TV. I’m a student with very limited resources. I can’t afford thousands of dollars for simply moving software from one computer to another when my old box gets too slow, old and worn out to function anymore. I’m forced by the sheer weight of numbers to keep Microsoft Access, Word, Excel and PowerPoint on my computer for class work; and the university site license doesn’t apply to student personal computers.
A $2,000 computer is, no doubt, cheap to those of you who deal with six figure incomes and above. I’m not in the real world, yet. Sorry I complained.

We are way off topic here. Yes, it is very fast, and no, I can’t afford a monitor that costs more than the computer. The total system was just under $2,000 with a 19" CRT monitor. I don’t like flat screens for my work, and I can’t afford them. My point was that registered software cannot be ported to a new computer without a lot of hassle and/or expense. If registration becomes the "norm", replacing a computer will be next to impossible without re-purchasing all your software, or spending days on the phone explaining what you are doing to computer reps.

We are way off topic here. Yes, it is very fast, and no, I can’t afford a monitor that costs more than the computer. The total system was just

$2,000 with a 19" CRT monitor.

I don’t like flat screens for my work,

and I
can’t afford them. My point was that registered software cannot be ported to a new computer without a lot of hassle and/or expense.

If registration
becomes the "norm", replacing a computer will be next to impossible

re-purchasing all your software,

or spending a

on the phone explaining
what you are doing to computer reps.