Adobe Is Locking Users Who Don't Agree To New Terms That Allows The Company To Use And Sub-License Their Content
Adobe Is Locking Users Who Don't Agree To New Terms That Allows The Company To Use And Sub-License Their Content
Adobe has changed its trend and conditions, suggesting that it can use professional data from creators without previously,
my conversation with every single chrome user for the past decade
there is no red line, there is no amount of google fuckery they won't tolerate, they are utterly broken, the pathetic depths they plumb are only rivaled by windows users
Not even being able to uninstall without first agreeing to the terms is wild.
That's a good reason to use an operating system that will never turn over control to a software vendor.
I speak of gnu/linux, of course. Or any of the BSDs. Or any other unix variant. It's true that there is a ton of proprietary software out there that won't run on those, but it's almost always from exploitative companies like Adobe who should be run out of business.
so it’s malware
This is actually fucking insane. Like I get that it's so they can sell your work for generative tool training sets, but it also just lets them straight up sell your work and license it as they please? I can't see this going unchallenged legally. Adobe's software is practically load-bearing in creative industries. The idea that all the moneyed interests involved would just lay down and say, "sure you've got rights to our movie now," just doesn't make any sense at all.
To add, every time adobe updates it's software the cybersecurity team releases a bulletin about it being vulnerable to a bunch of exploits. So they're updating us with broken crap, and this is just the PDF readers and editors.
Between the constant shuffle of security concerns and the stupid licensing, the IT department gave up and moved on to foxit.
Looks like the pirates were right once again (they always have been)
No they aren't, the "pirates" are freeloaders who help these companies abuse more people by endorsing the software via its use.
The actual volunteers and activists continually developing software that respects your freedom are doing the actual heroic shit here. Not some rando in Brazil who found a cracked copy of a program and hosts a tracker.
In fact, "piracy" helps these companies more than they hinder.
The actual volunteers and activists continually developing software that respects your freedom are doing the actual heroic shit here.
Yes FOSS is good and should be supported, but claming someone who is pirating a copy of Adobe is perpetuating abuse is batshit. Supporting an open source project requires specific knowledge and/or money, pirating Adobe and using a wholly separate skillset to pay your bills is morally neutral at worst. Personally I would argue, it's good actually.
"I can't support this FOSS project because I'm broke and don't know how the fuck to code, and I also I can't use this stolen copy of Adobe because someone might find out, guess I'll starve" doesn't make any sense.
insane take.
Pirates:
when pirating software is a better experience than paying thousands of dollars per year for it.
Pirates are losers. Unless they also support FOSS, they're just perpetuating the cycle of abuse.
Why would anyone agree to that?
Solely for the purposes of operating or improving the Services and Software, you grant us a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free sublicensable, license, to use, reproduce, publicly display, distribute, modify, create derivative works based on, publicly perform, and translate the Content. For example, we may sublicense our right to the Content to our service providers or to other users to allow the Services and Software to operate with others, such as enabling you to share photos.
Like they add the "improving the Services and Software" caveat as though they aren't going to use this to feed their shitty AI slop machine
Knowing Hellworld, this will somehow be allowed. Knowing how much Liberals slobber over IP protections, this will not be allowed.
So it'll be like every other EULA, full of blatantly illegal and unenforceable shit that the average user has to be subject to but Big Company My Dad Gave Me will be able to get around it.
Wouldn’t it be in the companies’ best interest to start funding existing FOSS alternatives so they can still exclusively own their content?
They should have done that ten years ago. Blender-tier alternatives would have been nice to have.
Blender-tier Kdenlive would have been a major game changer
It is. It was literally pointed out since the 80s by the free software movement that libre software would be in everyone, including corpos, best interest.
But failsons and VC ghouls created the circlejerk known as Silicon Valley and sucessfully pushed the idea of freedom away from peoples heads.
We have content at work that contains patient PII which needs to be censored before publication. Agreeing to these terms would be a HIPAA violation. I know this isn’t a unique use case either.
lol
Nationalize Creative Suite
Gimp works fine and Inkscape is genuinely nice.
GIMP needs to change the fucking name. If even Coq, the math nerds, can get their shit together enough to change their name to Rocq because Coq sounds rude (and is especially awkward for women to say in professional contexts) in a language that is not the primary language of the creators nor significant proportion of the userbase, then surely the GIMP people can find it in their hearts to do similar.
Rocq out with your Coq out
GIMP's dev team are the living embodiment of "not invented here". Whether code, suggestions, or basic public relations concepts like not using a slur for their software's name, they are among the most stubborn and most close-minded people in the entire free software/open source world.
krita is my personal preferred program
Adobe is allowed to do this in large part because Photoshop is the most pirated software in existence, fwiw. So I wouldn’t say “the pirates win again” because, well, no one is winning except for Adobe, here. Do what you need to do- I use Macs for work that I don’t pay for…I’m not going to say it’s some sort of moral or material victory, though. I’m still using the Mac and all the baggage that comes with. We all know the answer to “what is to be done?” in this sphere and it is varying levels of cope to pretend otherwise.