I remember 15 or so years ago a colleague of mine ( in the nordics outside of EU ) wanted to purchase a photoshop licence for personal use.
It was a crazy expensive licence ( I do not remember how much but it was more than I made a month at that time I remember ) but she is a woman of principals and refuses to run pirated software.
It took her weeks to get the licence as Adobe did not distribute to personal user licences in our area at the time. Only crazy enterprise fee.
She managed to get a personal license through US after weeks of emails and phone calls.
I however pirated until the subscription model came out, initially I thought the monthly fee was kinda brilliant as it allowed me to actually legally run photoshop for a price I could afford.
Just buy the occasional month when I actually need it and then cancel for all the 10 months a year that I don't use it.
Seemed like a win/win to me.
Sadly someone at Adobe considers this a worse crime than pirating it seems and casual users are tricked into these insane contracts.
I sincerely hope this practice of a hidden cancellation fee is not only banned but heftily fined.
It was a crazy expensive licence ( I do not remember how much but it was more than I made a month at that time I remember ) but she is a woman of principals and refuses to run pirated software.
It took her weeks to get the licence as Adobe did not distribute to personal user licences in our area at the time. Only crazy enterprise fee.
She managed to get a personal license through US after weeks of emails and phone calls.
I however pirated until the subscription model came out, initially I thought the monthly fee was kinda brilliant as it allowed me to actually legally run photoshop for a price I could afford.
Just buy the occasional month when I actually need it and then cancel for all the 10 months a year that I don't use it. Seemed like a win/win to me.
Sadly someone at Adobe considers this a worse crime than pirating it seems and casual users are tricked into these insane contracts.
I sincerely hope this practice of a hidden cancellation fee is not only banned but heftily fined.