Adobe Photoshop 6.1 - 7.0 Calls back
 

Are you part of the 25,000?! This is something to think about.

What website did you get that from? About 4 months back, something similiar was posted at YaXaY which was only a rumor, nothing more.

I just did a search.. I checked the Adobe home-site, AOL, GOOGLE, and Turbo search and nothing came up except for some Russian guy that got arrested for cracking some incripted codes on some vertual books.

I can imagine this happening, but find it hard to believe, kind of like howthe RIAA claims to have a scann on Audio Music shared over P2P, and some say they will "hunt us down".

Even if they could find all the illegal users, would they really go after them? We're talking Thousands among thousands of people.. and tons of people sueing the FBI fo going after them.

Yes, I know it's twisted, but there would be people trying to get money for being caught.

The only thing I can provide are these links:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&i...=Google+Search

A very close friend of mine told me about the program calling back,
and found a detection of something in his firewall that adobe was giving off.

Scroll down to the bottom of this thread:
http://www.idgrid.org/archive/2002_06_02_oldnews.html

sounds like rumor to me, because I have a 2 hardware firewalls and a software one....And I installed it just fine...

In any case, real or not, I am very sure there are more than just 25,000 users that are pirating the software. Photoshop is one of the most used programs for design, aside from Fireworks and the 3D rendering programs such as Bryce and others.

For them to track down that many people would cost them more than they would save, so I would say this is just a rumor. As for RIAA, I don't personally think they have a scan on audio being transferred. The ones that have gotten in trouble are those that were with Verizon (as they had to hold back on their "tunes") and others that were sharing them, non-P2P. P2P will always exist, ever if they take away KaZZa and the other 300 programs - someone will always develop another and so on.

And dont forget irc. I dont think they will ever shut down warez on irc. Also, even if it where ture do you honestly think a warez gourp would leave it in their release?. Just look at XP corp, people have been bypassing the call backs in it even before it was released to the public.

I can see everyones points. But seriously "if", this did happen it could put alot of artists and developers in a rut. Or in jail...or both. I utilize adobe ps educational edition.

Photoshop does call home (ZA warns me). Good riddance though; that's why I've decided to likely never sell any software because lameasses everywhere will just pirate it.

Who is ZA? Whats there source filbert1?

Zone alarm, is a program. Basicly a software firewall.

I'm getting more lost along the way wit what you guys are saying, please elaborate....


- I stick with my belief that even if they did have a call-back, it's not going to be used on individuals who use Adobe programs. It is more likely to be used on whole companys that runn the software illegally. The thought of the FBI arresting thousands among thousands of people over warez is rediculous, it's way more costly then it is cost effective. This dosn't seem to be a realization.

- @ SaintDog, RIAA has developed a trace on Audio which has been purchased online, it's a known fact. Anyone who buys a song online, download, and then spreads out, they can find out where it is (except for the hackers who mess arround with the codes) - but the RIAA says that they will not use it to catch P2P "warez" users. As the same with them, their not going to start a million man search just to catch people sharing songs.

Well, anyways.. My story = "huh, what? Illegal? I thought it was free.. ohh man, if I only new. Hey look, I'm really sorry".

1. Agree
2. The MP3 codec doesn't have any way of calling home. While they obviously have a good argument IMO the RIAA is just a bunch of greedy corporate users who feel that they need to charge $15 for a CD that costs less than $1 to produce and has only three songs that I like.

On point # 2: I agree, the RIAA are a bunch of greedy people, paying $20+ for a cd is what drives people to download mp3's. Mabey they sould re think their pricing a bit if they want to stop the distro of mp3's. For the price of one cd with 15 or more songs on it i can buy a huge pack of blanks. As far as stoping p2p users, it will never happen.

P2P is here forever, I just braught up the RIAA thing because it's kind of the same situation, people are getting scared now that Adobe is going to sue them, well it's not going to happen.. their not coming after YOU unless you own a company that runs 20instances of Adobe programs.

RIAA is just a bunch of cut-throat greedy *******s.. They say their representing the ARTISTS, which is bull. Artists barely make a chunk of what the CD's cell for. They get paid the big bux for performances, and producing / writting. If you were a singer who sang lyrics you didn't write, and you didn't perform, I don't care how many records you sell, you're gonna have to find a day job.