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The people innocently downloading CS2 aren't just a bunch of freeloaders. For those people, CS2 might seem like a gift from the heavens and their introduction to the world of the Adobe products they've been saving for. They'd rather suffer silently with GIMP while they saved away their pennies for CS6. There are a lot of newbies and aspriing artists who would rather not pirate software. If you're Joe Casual and you're linked to the download page, how will you ever know? If you never visit the forums, how will you know? If your daily internet routine doesn't include trolling the tech sites, how will you know?Īnd to the notion that people downloading CS2 had no intention of every buying CS6. The apples seemed as free as the oranges, pears, or grapes right next to them. Can I blame them for grabbing the apples? No. That'd be like me putting an assortment of fruit on the table, telling everybody that they can take some, but forgetting to tell them that the apples are just for certain people. People have no real way of understanding or knowing that this is not the case. They did, and continue to do, everything in their power to make CS2 appear as free as every other free download on their site. The fault falls squarely on the shoulders of Adobe. Honestly, you can't demonize or criminalize these people. A guy like this will never, ever know that what he did was allegedly illegal or even (subjectively) immoral. Other companies do give away old software all of the time, some far more expensive than CS2. He's not trying to get away with anything either. He's not a criminal and has no cause to believe that he is Adobe did, after all, leave it out in the open as they would any other free download. He certainly wasn't misled, as credible sites repored that CS2 was free. What then?Ī guy like that, who probably represents the average person, will never know what's being talked about on these forums.

You're not likely to lurk on the Adobe forums and you got the direct page link second hand. In fact, like everybody else that day, you've got no reason to think that it's not free. He read it on legit sites like Gizmodo or Forbes and wanted to pass it on. You're doing your Twitter thing and one of your friends tweets that Adobe is giving away CS2 for free. Here's a missing piece of the puzzle too. There will be law abiding citizens who will be mislead to think the software is free, then find out they were mislead, and maybe even provide feedback on the sites they originally were mislead by. There will be amoral individuals who will get away with what they can get away with.