Adobe Cuts Perpetual License for Elements Down to Just Three Years
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So long, lifetime license.

Among the most significant changes with this year’s Elements releases has little to do with new features but instead concerns the ways users purchase and own the software. While prior versions of Photoshop and Premiere Elements have been lifetime licenses — the user buys the software and then owns it indefinitely — this year’s release has moved to a three-year license term.

  • @[email protected]English
    22•4 hours ago

    The same software purchased digitally doesn’t magically become a “service”. Coincidentally, you can absolutely download and backup all your GOG games and then “own” them the same way you own your old CD ROMs.

      • @AbidanYreEnglish
        9•2 hours ago

        gog services

        That’s for their services. Any software you buy from them can be downloaded and used forever. Even if GoG goes out of business.

          • @feedtheplantsEnglish
            6•42 minutes ago

            “In the very unlikely situation that we have to stop running GOG we’ll do our best to give you advance notice, so that you can download and safely store all your DRM-free content.” - GOG user agreement.

          • @AbidanYreEnglish
            7•2 hours ago

            Show me where anything I download from them won’t work if they go out of business.

            It’s not my fault you don’t understand the difference between a service and a product.

            • @[email protected]English
              -2•1 hour ago

              Burden of proof lies on the person claiming so. Yes, indeed you don’t understand that difference

              • @AbidanYreEnglish
                4•54 minutes ago

                I have games I’ve downloaded from them and they can be played fully disconnected from the Internet.

                You’re the one claiming a downloaded executable is a service. Prove it.

      • @[email protected]English
        13•4 hours ago

        The same thing is in the terms and conditions for each of your old CD ROM games. The point is that they can’t physically keep you from using the DRM free software that you backed up locally.

        The perceived difference has nothing to do with the game being a “service” or that perpetual licenses are not economically possible for “services” but with the fact that by the power of the Internet companies now have a way to brick your stuff remotely. And you accepted it when they put it in instead of voting with your wallet. Because you wanted Half Life 2 just so so so badly.

        They’re doing it because they can, not because they have to.