Yes, but in a country like PRC, it is still questionable because it's hard to tell. Hologram stickers are cheap there! They can sell a million copies and tell you only the sold 10,000 and only pay the royalties for 10,000. Such is the practices and ethics in PRC. Give them a few more years to get their IPR and FTA enforced.
good point there. when you legally purchase a license, you enjoy a better piece of mind (especially for commercial usage).
Are you allowed to install the Adobe on both the notebook and the desktop? :dunno: I know Macromedia allows that.
Yes, but in a country like PRC, it is still questionable because it's hard to tell. Hologram stickers are cheap there! They can sell a million copies and tell you only the sold 10,000 and only pay the royalties for 10,000. Such is the practices and ethics in PRC. Give them a few more years to get their IPR and FTA enforced.
PRC labelled Music Videos, Audios, DVDs or anything related is suppose to be for CHINA market
as long as you see PRC labels in singapore, it is illegal liao...
IIRC, in most EULA, you cannot sell/transfer the old license if you have purchased an upgrade at an upgrade price. You'll have to hold on to your old licenses also.
1 license, max 2 CPU, suppose that you won't run together. But sometimes I actually run together to speed up post-processing. Once it happened that my harddisk crashed, and no way to terminate the installed license. I got to call the support center (definitely located in overseas due to the poor connection) to activate my license.Are you allowed to install the Adobe on both the notebook and the desktop? :dunno: I know Macromedia allows that.
I think MS also allows that on the basis that the desktop is not in use when you're using the notebook and vice versa.
so probably MS won't look for him. Hahaha...IIRC, in most EULA, you cannot sell/transfer the old license if you have purchased an upgrade at an upgrade price. You'll have to hold on to your old licenses also.
I know many people on eBay did that. Not sure how Adobe sees it, I am fine with that ;p
Then I presume it's fine.. if you get the entire package.. If the seller has upgraded and sold away his older copy, he would be the one using the illegal software.
The limitation is mostly for production office setup, say if you have 4 PC/Mac in an office, you need to buy 4 lisences instead of 2 sharing them together. If you got 4 lisence then surely no problem to run another few laoptop for presentation purpose etc, light usage.I think MS also allows that on the basis that the desktop is not in use when you're using the notebook and vice versa.
to tomshen
Thanks for the clarification.. So as long as you open only one copy even when both machines are running is fine, right?
That's the best thing about using legitimate software. Tech support is just a phonecall away. And you get peace of mind. :thumbsup:
Then I presume it's fine.. if you get the entire package.. If the seller has upgraded and sold away his older copy, he would be the one using the illegal software.
GIMP works fine for me.
For example, I tried one freeware called irfanview - a browser with limited editing software. It sucks bigtime and I deleted it away. However, Picasa is in another league - so well written and works flawlessly.GIMP works fine for me.
Adobe and MS needs to pay programmers to write. Open source programmers generally write as a hobby and is free. That's why the price difference! But of course you cannot expect much from them because you would be using a product of a hobby.
Hahaha.. On the contrary, I am someone who find Irfanview very convenient for simple things like cropping and viewing. Don't think it can do much other than that.
Flawed logic. What kind of gear would you expect to 'match' CS2? FYI, I bought my CS2 way before I got a DSLR. And now, I'm 'only' using an entry DSLR, should I stop using CS2?Yes, how true. I see so often CSers using entry level gear, but CS2 software - I am very sure that person wouldn't pay for the CS2! The price of the CS2 doesn't match his/her gear!
