[geeks] Adobe's Software Activation

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

velociraptor wrote:

> I was under the impression that Adobe apps were "phone home"
> apps, rather than "write crap to your MBR" apps.  If you register
> your software, when you re-input your serial # after reinstalling
> your OS, it's going to go "phone home" and find you are on the
> same OS/hardware.

I love how they assume your machine is on a network, or that if it is, 
it is allowed to make arbitrary connections to the outside world.

Idiots.

> As an aside, it's crap like this that keeps the crack/patch writers
> busy...I guess we should all be happy that software manufacturers
> don't have the same kind of "togetherness" that the music/film 
> people do...can you imagine the kind of bogus "digital rights 
> mgmt" they'd be shoving down our throats if M$, Adobe, Oracle
> had the equivalent of the RIAA/MPAA?
> 
> I can hardly stand to consider the idea.

I can't stand what they've done to and are planning to do to the music 
and video industry already.

Microsoft and others have tried very hard to make the computer into a 
non-modifiable appliance that spies on you and sucks money out of you to 
garantee them and their partners an undeserved revenue stream.

Fortunately the backlack against this has been big so far, and the geeks 
have been working very hard to stop such threats.

That's the real reason behind things like the DMCA: to make the work 
which helps us oppose Orwellian computer system design illegal.