[geeks] Adobe's Software Activation

[Phil Brutsche]

kevin at mpcf.com wrote:

[snip product activation scheme]

> Does this sound like BS to anyone else?  I mean, you can repartition,
> ease and change file system types all without low leveling a drive.
> How (and where) could Adobe products actually write data that would
> not get erased if I say.... repartitioned a drive and changed its
> file system from FAT32 to XFS, then once more to NTFS?  None of this
> would involve low leveling a drive, but it's hard for me to believe
> that Adobe could stash data somewhere safe from all of that.  Are
> they writing crap to the MBR or something or is this just BS?

No, it's not BS.

Yes, they are writing stuff to the MBR.

No, they aren't the first (someone else mentioned Intuit).

Businesses can get around this sort of crap by getting taking the volume
licence route, but home/SOHO users are screwed.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com