randym77 opened this issue on Jan 07, 2013 · 74 posts
3doutlaw posted Mon, 07 January 2013 at 7:39 PM
Quote - The link is dead and it looks to be a mistake. Quite a few people got extremely lucky over a screwup. Nothing to see.
Actually, all the download links still work. The serial codes are common and are all in the public domain...and Adobe's official response is not really condemning anything. Its just stating the original intent. They are just now using this relatively benign statement as the formal response at this time.
Other 2 forum links:
Problem they have is in those threads. They acknowledged that it was out there for public consumption, not even the software said anything about purchasing, but just obtaining. This led a whole lot of sites and folks to believe they were doing something that was OK...now they say, oops, that was not really the plan.
The official statement does not say you "cannot" use it, which may be there way of trying to thread the needle here between condoning and condemning.
Its really an interesting story to see unfold