Adobe Photoshop CC Has Apparently Been Cracked One Day After Launch

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by fdm • 13 years ago

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mariusmg• 13 years ago

Seriously ? Now it's news when software gets cracked ?

Happens everyday.....move on.

mtgx• 13 years ago

I guess it's to rub it in the faces of Adobe and everyone else who supported this move "because it would help against piracy", when in reality they've just made it worse for normal customers, and also more expensive (which was probably what they really wanted anyway, and the anti-piracy thing was just the public excuse for doing it).

radicalbyte• 13 years ago

In this case, piracy is in Adobe's interest. It allows people to learn their tools, which they'll then buy once they're working.

Creative Cloud is all about forced upgrades, not cutting piracy.

madeofpalk• 13 years ago

I don't really buy the 'more expensive' line. Previously the suite was a prohibitively expensive for me, whereas now I pay $50 a month. Spread over two years (approx range between CS updates), I still come ahead by about $1000.

bigd3• 13 years ago

I found myself buying for the first time ps and illustrator. the edu subscription is 20$ month, which is finally, reasonable. I'm very happy to pay for what I'd been using for years but had previously been impossible to afford.

freehunter• 13 years ago

And that's exactly what Adobe is looking for. They don't care that you pirate their software. They know that when the time comes for you to choose something to use professionally, you'll have no choice but to buy a license. And if you're not using it professionally, Adobe lost nothing from the pirated version anyway.

free652• 13 years ago

They're plenty of professionals that use pirated Adobe software... Like the most of the 2nd/3rd world countries.

workbench• 13 years ago

Considering how complacent Adobe is right now it worries me how bad things will get when they no longer have to entice an upgrade every year.

threeseed• 13 years ago

And people can download music for free yet Apple sells billions of songs on iTunes.

People are more than happy to pay if the price/convenience is right.

ihsw• 13 years ago

It's probably a honeypot.

fnordfnordfnord10• 13 years ago

I find this amusing. Adobe's piracy problem is of it's own making. They've cultivated these pirates for years by keeping their products priced so high, and by ignoring widespread piracy from students and amateurs. They've got their work cut out for them if they want to solve this problem.

jesperlindstrom• 13 years ago

I agree. Photoshop is something I use a lot on a hobby basis, but as a student I can't justify buying it because of the high price, which leaves me with no other option...

bigd3• 13 years ago

as a student you can get it for 20$ month. That's not even one night out.

frou_dh5• 13 years ago

which leaves me with no other option...

Delusional excuse. You have options to do without or use an alternative.

ohreally• 13 years ago

I just want to point out that adobe's price point is significantly more competitive with their creative cloud offering. $20/Month for students.

I get that a lot of people still won't be able to afford that, but it seems they really listened to feedback on their pricing. Considering upgrades and updates are built into that price, I'd say its a really good deal.

http://www.adobe.com/products/creativecloud/buying-guide.htm...

kibibu• 13 years ago

You have options. On Mac, use Pixelmator. Elsewhere, learn GIMP.

I cut the Adobe cord a long time ago and don't even miss it anymore.

fnordfnordfnord10• 13 years ago

which leaves me with no other option...

That's not correct. There are options. The alternatives aren't always as capable, or may require more work on your part, or may just not be as convenient, but there are options that would allow you to do most or all of the things that can be done without pirating the Adobe stuff.

Recognition of Adobe's tactic, and the fact that the graphic arts industries have practically made Adobe products a de facto standard certainly increases the incentive for many to simply pirate the stuff. Adobe is counting on that.

hippich• 13 years ago

this is exactly what adobe trying to do with their easily crackable software :) they want you to think there are no other option available.

jiggy20112• 13 years ago

http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/students.edu....

citricsquid• 13 years ago

Although there's no confirmation it's their strategy, it's often postulated that Adobe know this and do it intentionally. If you have amateurs and students hooked on your software, when they become professionals they'll be proponents of the software and encourage businesses to invest.

fnordfnordfnord10• 13 years ago

Adobe can never confirm such a strategy. It would destroy their standing to engage in any enforcement.

sgdesign• 13 years ago

That's what I've always heard as well. Same thing as Microsoft tolerating Windows piracy in China.

mb02• 13 years ago

Piracy will always be a problem for any company that makes commercial software. People who are on a tight budget will always opt for the pirated version, and crackers will always jump on Adobe, Autodesk, Microsoft, and every other popular software publisher whenever any of them come out with a new piece of software. The only thing any company can really do is offer features that can't be replicated in the locally run software, but for software like photoshop, that's not really practical.

jiggy20112• 13 years ago

They do offer cheaper deals for students. http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/creativecloud/students.edu....

Besides they are pricing for max revenue rather than max sales. Better to sell to one professional who will pay $1000 than 10 student/hobbyists who will pay $60.

tomrod2• 13 years ago

This is refreshing. I love economic arguments.

Does software like Adobe's typically show increasing returns to scale though?

fnordfnordfnord10• 13 years ago

Better to sell to one professional

Exactly, they only have to support a small group of professional users.

who will pay $1000 than 10 student/hobbyists who will pay $60

I see what you did there...

devcpp• 13 years ago

That's short-term thinking. If students don't use your products, they won't when they turn into tomorrow's professionals. Lots of successful companies have been doing this for many years. $60+ per month is way too expensive. Thankfully for them, piracy is widespread enough to ensure that GIMP's ugly interface keeps students from switching to it.

nemothekid• 13 years ago

At the end of the day is though whether Photoshop costs $60 oor $600, I think most students/hobbyists will pirate it anyway.

rplacd• 13 years ago

If the CC's brought in one good thing, it's motivation to finally surgically remove Bridge from PS - I eyed it with suspicion when it came and tried to make itself at home; and I'm not terribly mourning the unceremonious slitting of the umbilical cord. (I am - in short - a miserable, tribal consumer.)

ajiang• 13 years ago

I'll echo radicalbyte's comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911792) which is that Adobe doesn't care about the casual user who pirates their software. It's extremely expensive software that they would only expect professionals to pay for, and typically those designers, graphic artists, etc. at companies are not going to be pirating anything. Their companies will pay for the software, and given the choice, those professionals will pick the software they're most comfortable with. By making it pretty darn easy to get your hands on a pirated copy, Adobe is playing the long game but winning in the end as the steep learning curve keeps their users from switching.

socialist_coder• 13 years ago

It's not easy to pirate though. The last versions have been pretty tricky for "normal" people to successfully crack and run. Just look at the comments on any file sharing site. The majority of them are like, "i cant get this to work". People end up running an older version and not the latest.

If this was really their intended strategy they would just make a free version for students or amateurs. As it is now, they are spending a LOT of effort trying to make it harder to crack their products. And it is harder, but it's still possible.

Look at Autodesk Maya, they have a free version for students so there is absolutely no reason to pirate it.

mb02• 13 years ago

The prospective of crackers is that all commercial software should be cracked & distributed amongst the community. It doesn't matter if it's a $20 chat client, or a $10K industrial CAD platform. Reverse engineering is a sport to them.

fnordfnordfnord10• 13 years ago

s/prospective/perspective/

draugadrotten• 13 years ago

An uncrackable adobe copy protection is what the Gimp (d*mn that name) really needs to finally get usable. Legions of creative students will improve upon Gimp as soon as they can no longer use Adobe for free. Professionals already pay for Adobe.

timc3• 13 years ago

And a new usable UI, and for some additional features

sergiotapia2• 13 years ago

GIMP needs to not look like a program that time warped forward in time from 1993.

fennecfoxen3• 13 years ago

I'm going to be pedantic for a moment to make a point later... The GIMP is essentially an inanimate object and has no needs of its own. It does not want to be used. It does not want to be popular. It does not want. It would be quite happy to be consigned to perdition, except it can't be happy at all. Let's be clear here: you want a program like GIMP that doesn't look like it time warped forward from 1993.

Which is a different matter altogether, but the main thing is that it sounds less impressive, and that you should watch out for any potential sense of entitlement to awesomer software, because you probably didn't actually pay any money or work on said software... :P

Now, some of us are a little less picky about UI and deployability in an actual or hypothetical commercial design-house workflow and the usual complaints, and are possibly a little more picky about spending money (and/or pirating software). We'll continue to happily use the GIMP for our miscellaneous photo-editing needs as such needs arise, and volunteer labor will continue to improve it.

nchlswu• 13 years ago

I love how the media keeps portraying CC as an anti-piracy measure. It may be a segue to it, but unless software truly lives in the cloud this would never be the case.

It's changing the revenue stream and in a lot of cases, it's more compelling for users to switch over.

Simple1234• 13 years ago

An entire day? What a bunch of lazy slackers...

s0me0ne• 13 years ago

Paint Shop or Corel Draw are much cheaper. If you still need commercial softare.

Adobe Photoshop CC Has Apparently Been Cracked One Day After Launch

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