new adobe thread - expired serial number

solrac

solrac

Mac Ninja
ok the other thread got out of hand. This is not stupid CIA intelligence bullcrap.

Ok, simple. On June 1, 2002, all illegally obtained version of photoshop expire.

I don't know how.

All I know is that i got an error upon opening photoshop that says "Your request cannot be completed because the serial number is expired" (not verbatim).

I tried subject matter removed

Now what I want to know is by what mechanism does Photoshop know the serials expire? Are all these 6 serial numbers i have pre-destined to expire in June 2002? Or did adobe create a database of pirated serials and use the web component to monitor for them starting June 2002?

I don't know, but it's a pain. I need a new serial number!!

By the way, if I was not in poverty I would buy photohsop.
 
You're walking on a path here... My perception of this board is that discussions about where to *actually* find serials or warez is not liked that much.

With Surfer's dying (06/2002 is the last issue) this is a time of change, anyway. I'd just wait it out. Mac OS X lets you have Photoshop open and running for months without a restart.
 
We anticipate some heavy response fire:eek:

As I mentioned in another thread, it's been a bad few days for people using 'beta' software!

It's one thing using it, it's another using this forum to post your worries about it not working!!!

The general consensus is that it'll lower the tone and reputation of macosx.com
 
that's not true, about lowering the reputation of macosx.com. It's a community and the web site is not responsible for individual posts.

Anyway, this is very important information, and it's screwed up.

And no, I can't leave photoshop running for months without quitting it, even on Mac OS X. Because I run so many apps that I have to quit the ones that are not being used to free up memory. Yes, it does make my computer go faster. I know I should be able to have 100000 apps open and if they are unused they should leave no memory footprint but it doesn't work that way.

And on top of that I have to restart to OS 9 to use my POS digital camera.
 
Pull the disclaimer statement if you like but if you where to find all and sundry posting warez, serial etc info about how to hack or get round spending money on apps, then the whole of this forum would totally change for the worse!:(

Leave your dodgy-app worries for Carracho chat etc.

I don't mind if people occasionally enquire, in which case most of us kindly direct them to Carracho.

Anyway, here's a hack to get round your Photoshop problem, log-on to Adobe.com and find the On-Line Purchase section, using the numbers on your credit card (just like a serial number;) input these and add your address detail, and *ding* you'll get a working version!:D
 
Cool. We could all start writing in Elite then!

WaRe2 d00d!!! u R an 31337 hax0r!!!!
ps. n0w wh3r3 1 c4n 5c0r3!! s0m3 9r0n?!!!!! :p :p :p
 
ONLY CAUSE YA ARENT ELITE AS ME!!! IM 5UPER ELITE!!

oh god. someone please report me to the moderator. the insanity must end. :D :D :D
 
Originally posted by uoba
Anyway, here's a hack to get round your Photoshop problem, log-on to Adobe.com and find the On-Line Purchase section, using the numbers on your credit card (just like a serial number;) input these and add your address detail, and *ding* you'll get a working version!:D
Click to expand...

pure_fuggin'_comedy_gold right here. :lmao:

solrac, you need an easy solution, you need a serial, well....just like uoba suggested, the best way to get a serial number is to BUY PS7. this isn't that hard to figure out. just like it's not that hard to figure out that talk of warez and such isn't exactly welcome here.
 
ok well hook me up with $16,000 first, so I can pay my living expenses this year. Then hook me up with $700 and the first thing I'll buy is photoshop, but only because the money was given to me.

So anyway, photoshop basically costs $16,700, and I have other things to buy after I can handle my living expenses for this year, but before photoshop.

Sorry, but life costs money.
 
oh and don't start talking about stealing lol

stealing affects people

copying a piece of software affects no one.

When those things in star trek become reality (I forget the name), that just creates ****, like food, from thin air, then stealing as a whole will disappear.

If you could copy a car molecule for molecule with a computer, and it would appear from thin air, car theft would be as harmless as copying photoshop is today.
 
piracy;)

Star Trek what!... molecules eh!? :confused: :confused: :confused:

The weakest excuse for software piracy is that it doesn't effect anybody -- it does, more people buy photoshop, prices drop, more people copy photoshop, prices rise... plain and simple.

I am not really bothered that you use a dodgy copy or not, I just don't like the idea of people moaning about it when it doesn't work, especially on the forums! You pays your money you makes your choice (or not in this case... you get what I mean.)

There is also another option to your $16,000 question, don't use photoshop? As for telling us that life costs money... duh!! Braindead statement of the year! Your very lucky your life only costs $16,000!
 
heh. The thing is, one day Photoshop will make me enough money over my cheap ass living expenses so that I can buy it. That's reason enough to keep using it.

One day I will be a paid customer. That should make adobe happy. Many "software pirates" are really people learning software, and one day being able to afford it. If I had to buy it, I would never have learned anything because I wouldn't have access.

If piracy was impossible or as hardcore as real theft, it would basically FORCE anyone poor that couldn't afford it to get financial aid or a loan to go to design school. It would basically FORCE people to get student loans. (Unless they were lucky enough to have a friend and a computer to learn on.)

But the way it is, I could ge the program for free, learn it, become professional with it, make money at it, then buy it.

And 16,000 dollar living expenses is not "cheap" or "expensive". It's all relative to how much you actually make. If you make nothing, it's pretty expensive now isn't it??

And finally, I'm not whining or complaining about this. I just posted a warning.
 
Let's kill the whole piracy-economy-morality discussion right now. If I have to read through any more of this my eyes are gonna roll into the back of my head and I'm gonna dive out my window. Naked. None of us want that.

I agree with uoba in that, buying Photoshop is probably the best (and possibly the only) way to have yourself a working version right now. With that said, I too, am not ready to fork over five-hundy for some graphic program I'm gonna use maybe a few times a month.

If I were you solrac, which I'm not but bear with me, I would bite the proverbial bullet and go buy Photoshop Elements. I know I know, you'll have to run it in classic, but if you want a working version, it's your best bet. I purchased Elements last year and personally can't tell the difference between it and the real thing.
If you don't want to mess with Elements, I'm sorry to say but you're on your own. We don't exactly like talking about warez here, so, 'nuff said.
 
Read in the thread:

« more people buy photoshop, prices drop, more people copy photoshop, prices rise... plain and simple »

<b>Not plain and simple at all.</b>

Adobe just doesn't care about dummies hacking Photoshop to scribble their *****ty JPEG files for their homepage. Moreover, it's a way to have their program as a standard, on every computer.
Adobe cares about <b>the amount of good, professional files signed by photoshop</b> that the Web carries.

Which means if you guys just draw a circle in Photoshop to get it on your homepage.mac.com site, Adobe will get a good laugh. But if you write a tutorial for drawing realistic hair using a Photoshop brush, then Adobe'll just weep around.

I use Photoshop a lot for my design stuff, I'm editing a magazine here in France. We use Quark XPress, Illustrator, InDesign, Acrobat… we use clipping paths, PostScript fonts, PDF RIPs, …

None of this is on the Web. We don't want to harm Adobe :). A guy like the one behind the www.earthcurves.com website can really make the price of Photoshop increase, even though Earthcurves has a registered copy (that's only an example of good Photoshop work ;)).

Solrac: I like your way to explain you're poor: your profile is 'G4 Quad' and you did mention a POS camera. Hm ? Don't forget Photoshop is for sale at <b>Academic</b> price too.

FYI, I recommend GraphicConverter (www.lemkesoft.de) for *****ty JPEG work.
 
I detest anyone pulling the too expensive and I gotta live blag, don't treat us like fools, we ALL are in the same boat where working for a living is concerned. You probably no poorer than I or others on this forum.

As for purchasing Photoshop in the future, if you noticed, I am not concerned whether you do or don't (read my original post 'It's one thing using it, it's another using this forum to post your worries about it not working!!!', it's your attempt to discuss and complain that things don't work in your copied software... and then your equally over elaborated excuse (which we didn't ask for).

For a solution see themacko's and toasts answers.
 
Again, this thread is not to discuss warez. It is to warn about Adobe expiring a serial number and proving that it did indeed happen. Information that should be out there.

And I don't have a G4 Quad. My profile says G5 Quad, of course there's no such thing; it is a joke. Ha ha.

Anyway, people's skills at photoshop won't increase the price of it, lol.

The point here is, I don't have enough money to buy the damn program. There is no substitute. This is the way it is. So stop whining. It's not going to change. This thread is just a warning and proof that it's happening, because ElDiabloConCaca could not believe it. But believe it!!! As for me, it's the first time I've EVER seen a serial number "expire" so his disbelief is reasonable. But it happened!!!

Again, I'm not trying to get help to fix it, or discussing warez. I'm just saying, some PS serial numbes are expiring in June 2002 and it is for real.
 
isnt this forum about mac news and rumors (ie possible photoshop serial number deactivation).. and not about morality and software piracy
 
after re-reading your original post;)

Anyway solrac, I don't wanna fall out with a fellow Mac User such as yourself (especially if you've got one of those G5 Quads... off Carracho??) he he
 
well i'm not gonna go back and read my original post... but i'm assuming it sounds like I'm complaining about PS 7?

oh well bad writing / expression on my part. I found a suitable workaround, just a pain in the ass.

I could've lied the whole time and said this all happened to .... "a FRIEND... of mine *WINK*"
 
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