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What it doesn't say next to the price is that if you don't connect to the internet and allow your device to beg them for permission to use the thing you already purchased your software will stop working, or that if their servers are ever down or inaccessible for any reason you may not be able to use the software you paid for on your own machine. Adobe is a shit company. The business practices they use should be outlawed.



>What it doesn't say next to the price is that if you don't connect to the internet and allow your device to beg them for permission to use the thing you already purchased your software will stop working

Neither does netflix. It also doesn't mention that photoshop doesn't run on linux. Are you going to complain about that as well?

>or that if their servers are ever down or inaccessible for any reason you may not be able to use the software you paid for on your own machine

Again, netfilx. Also, isn't there usually enough of a grace window that unless you're working off a cruise ship for months at a time, you'll be fine? This feels like a edge case that gets trotted out in comments than happens in reality.


Netflix is an inherently online service, it does need the Internet to provide its primary function.

An image editor is not an inherently online service.




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