The modern creative industry is terrified of vendor lock-in. If you build your entire design career around Adobe CC, you cannot leave. Your work is in their cloud. Your fonts are in their library. Your portfolio is in Behance. If Adobe decides to raise the price to $99/month tomorrow, you pay or you lose your livelihood.
"Adobe has disabled the activation server for CS2 products because of a technical issue. To ensure customers who legitimately purchased CS2 can continue using their software, we are providing a version with an activated serial number." adobe photoshop cs2 paradox
In January 2013, Adobe announced it was shutting down the legacy activation servers for Creative Suite 2, CS3, and CS4. If you had a legitimate copy of CS2 installed and your computer crashed or you upgraded your OS, you would never be able to re-activate it. The software would become a digital brick. The modern creative industry is terrified of vendor lock-in
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The paradox lies in the enforcement. Adobe cannot win this argument. If they crack down on the 5 million+ people who downloaded CS2 from archive.org or their own legacy links, they look like Disney hoarding Mickey Mouse. If they ignore it, they undermine their current $54.99/month Creative Cloud pricing.