

They have distributed the works without requirements for their access. By their actions, in this case, they have chosen to make it available for free, regardless of their wishes to the contrary. The copyright holder has the right to chose what terms under which they will distribute their works to the public. Personally I think they should have come out and said 'fine, have at it' but they explicitly and deliberately did the opposite.Īctually it's you and Sonic who seem to have some skewed view of the realities of this situation.Īctually, according to copyright law, it is perfectly legal. Why they don't tear down the page, boggles my fucking mind, but I'm sure they have some rationale. Like, they've been amazingly clear about it. It's their I.P.Īdobe has explicitly said that NO, they have not released this for general use by everyone and that no payment is needed. The power is in Adobes hand, not anyone elses. They are not contractually obliged to give you that order. If a graphics card turns up on DELL for 5 bucks and it's obviously a mistake, sometimes they honor that mistake, sometimes they tell you to **** off (especially when you try to buy 30 of 'em, I've found).
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If they meant to release those software only for actual costumers of the CS2 Creative Suite, they could have sent by mail a notification to them that in their account they will find the download link and the serial number, or something like that, if you don't want to download them, fine, I'm downloading them all.īecause an employee or series of employees made a MISTAKE means that the company owes you JACK SHIT, as you were not in a binding agreement beforehand anyways. If you still disagree, then perhaps I'm a poor debater or I'm not very persuasive, but this is all I will say on the matter for fear that it will turn into a flame war.Īdobe released the download links and the serials, you can easily notice that they are in their own website, not some warez site, so this is LEGAL. Ten years ago I would have agreed with you wholeheartedly, but I've learned too much and I can't turn a blind eye it. I just don't agree with imposing rules that are contrary to reality. You can now ignore it or even leverage it as a marketing tool.ĭon't think I'm trying to disparage anyone. When you accept that, you realize it was waste of resources fighting file sharing. In the service model, file sharing becomes irrelevant. My point is, the product model is an insecure market for content, demonstrated by file sharing. We know that because we can look at the file sharing networks, but services cannot be taken without contract and once in contract, compensation is impossible for the patron to escape without arbitration. The fruits of the service can easily be had, regardless of legality. The creation of all art is a service that the artist sells to his audience, patron, whatever. I think it's entitlement to demand society do it the way a minority demands when it is perfectly feasible to do it many other ways. The portion of art that exists in our minds and our computers' storage is not an item to be held in ownership, but a thought to be transmitted. Art is communication, not an object to be owned, but a subject of the mind. The whole idea of it all is to force art to be something that it is not. The internet has dispelled that illusion and shown us that the only product was the material it was recorded on. You see, art is a service industry that has fooled itself into thinking it's a product industry because up until the information age, we needed physical media to store and distribute the works.

I'm saying it's entitlement to expect the whole of society to bend to a single business model (especially since the majority don't agree with it) when its quite clearly disjointed with reality. (By the way, you are on a game art forum, stating that people who make a product with the purpose of making money from it once finished, are acting entitled? Hmm.) The only part of your post that makes any sense, and I fully agree with you on this.
