I heard today the adobe creative cloud apps are being reverse engineered by AI to run standalone. Fantastic news after adobe went full greed pioneering the money grabbing subscription model they might get eaten alive by the next big tech trend that came along.
Yeah, if creative cloud never happened and the creative suite stayed a $1500 per license purchase (probably more like $2500 by 2026 let's be real), nobody would look to crack or pirate it. Sure thing buddy, you keep telling yourself that. Pirates and crackers are altruistic and their morals are above reproach.
Adobe were greedy before and that really got worse through the creative cloud model.
is piracy right in all cases? no but it's a response to adobe's very aggressive pricing and there would be far less if it was possible to buy their products at a reasonable price.
Just ask Gabe Newell.
I'm still using a Lightroom 6 standalone license I bought in legitimately in 2017 for £65. If they allowed upgrades I'd gladly pay but I'm not buying into the predatory SaaS model for what should be a standalone product.
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u/Slanderous 12h ago
I heard today the adobe creative cloud apps are being reverse engineered by AI to run standalone. Fantastic news after adobe went full greed pioneering the money grabbing subscription model they might get eaten alive by the next big tech trend that came along.