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The saddest part is that many of the purchasers of this counterfeit software are “trying to do the right thing” – as opposed to stealing it from a torrent site. If Adobe charged £200, maybe this market would not exist, and we’d have bought directly from Adobe – probably as a digital download, the most profitable transaction they can have. It must have cost a fair bit of money to make such an accurate copy of the Photoshop packaging, but the reason a factory will choose to do so is simple – there is an opening for selling this software at £100-£400 – a massive profit for those involved. By pricing the software well above £500 they have created this market. I don’t have much sympathy for Adobe here. Given the number of these packages that are currently on eBay this must be widespread.
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There must be a large number of people out there who had good quality printing throughout their box, or didn’t want to look a gift-horse in the mouth, who will only discover they paid hundreds of pounds for a worthless copy when they need Adobe support or want to (legitimately) upgrade to the newest version. We were lucky – we were suspicious and got a refund. These essentially deprive the PC of access to those websites by forcing the connection attempt back to your PC, creating an Internet dead-end.
If you open your hosts file ( file locations here) you’ll see two new lines:
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So how to tell for sure? To cheat the Adobe activation system this pirate copy made an amendment to our TCP/IP HOSTS file upon installation – all the proof you could possibly need. Arguably they could have used higher quality ink (the blue rubbed off onto the grey inner box in many places) but the attention to detail is unbelievable, with light Adobe logos in all the right places, appropriate stickers, screen printed DVD’s etc.
Knowing that we had a counterfeit copy I took another look at the packaging and the discs, and with the exception of those pamphlets it was incredibly good. Guess what? We’d just paid £250 for a Torrent download in a pretty box.
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Since there was no absolute way to be sure I called Adobe Customer Service on 02 and quoted the serial number. It was very hard to imagine Adobe would allow this through their quality control, especially with the price of Photoshop being what it is. I was 90% sure we’d snapped a bargain when I had a good look at two of the pamphlets in the box – the print quality was horrible, terrible gradients and blurry text (see pic below). The software also installed smoothly and activated without any drama (more on that later). An un-boxing video on YouTube proved the contents were right too. The package arrived two days later and initial impressions were excellent, it was shrink wrapped, looked right, used good quality paper and had a custom box (see pic on left). Now, that’s clearly a heck of saving, but still proper money – certainly 95% of all software is cheaper than £250 so whilst we were slightly suspicious we had high hopes. Knowing that Amazon would provide their usual high level of customer service if we ran into problems we chanced a Reseller with good feedback and handed over nearly £250.00. A quick search of the usual outlets proved there were some savings to be made, including several on eBay and a couple of Amazon Resellers.
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Early this week we decided it was time to update our aging copy of Photoshop to the latest version – Photoshop CS4 Extended – but balked at the RRP (around £800).
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