Conspiracy theory?
May 28th, 2007With the recent release of the Adobe CS3 suite of products, I can’t help but be amazed exactly how many illegal copies of the software and serial number generators there are floating about out there already. It seems to me to be beyond hacking endeavour to manage to crack the code sequences which Adobe use as serial numbers, never mind activation codes.
I’ve suspected for a while that Adobe (and Macromedia as they were) are possibly somewhat responsible for these leaks of information or if not, they certainly don’t seem to be doing much to deter the hackers and crackers in the web design community. For a piece of software to become an industry standard, which Adobe products such as Dreamweaver, Flash and Photoshop have become, it needs to be adopted by developers, many of whom are either unable or unwilling to part with £350 per item of software. Allowing or ignoring the proliferation of cracked software or serial number generator programs out there certainly would achieve such an end goal.
With developers using the software en masse, the companies which employ these developers will invest in the product. At £350 a head, it’s easy to see how Adobe pulls in it’s money from the corporates. One thing which always amazes me though is that some of the most amazing video games I’ve ever played only cost £29.99 yet surely as much or more development has gone into them than goes into Dreamweaver. I mean, I’m no expert, but surely rendering a vast 3D world which you can interact with is surely more complex from a programming perspective than Dreamweaver. No?
