Bundled Software Legality
I won a copy of Dreamweaver off eBay for a pretty good price, through my business. As it's a business, I have to be extra careful to make sure all my software is legal.
Anyway, when I got the disk, it said "Bundle Software" on the CD. Is this still legal for me to use?
andy206uk posted this at 17:39 — 27th October 2006.
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Errrm. probably legal for you to use, but definately not legal to sell. You should report the seller a) To ebay and b) to Macromedia/Adobe
timjpriebe posted this at 13:18 — 31st October 2006.
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The seller actually got banned from eBay after I won the auction.
Okay, over the weekend a second copy of Dreamweaver showed up from the same seller. And it has the same product key! Shouldn't all of those be different?
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Megan posted this at 14:26 — 31st October 2006.
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I think it's not uncommon for people to be selling priated copies of CD's online. Does the CD show any signs of copying? Did it come with any legitimate documentation?
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JoseffB posted this at 16:38 — 31st October 2006.
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I'd say its pirated.
I would suggest telling Ebay anyway and notifying adobe about the sale. I would ask them if you could get a free copy. you never know.
Greg K posted this at 16:53 — 31st October 2006.
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I have Macromedia Studio MX 2004 , and on both you have to activate it with the serial number, and can only be actiated on two computers. When we used it where I used to work, I could not activate it on a third until I selected "Transfer license" on one of the first two systems. It lets me do this back and forth as often as I want, and stays isntalled on the systems, just only "active" on two at a time. (and you always need internet connection activeate and transfer)
NOTE: This was *NOT* done for eliminating multiple purchases, I needed a copy on my laptop to take home, mydesktop, and the desktop system of our graphic artist becasue I used her system at times because only her's had the adobe studio installed on it.
-Greg
JeevesBond posted this at 05:46 — 1st November 2006.
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Sounds dodgy to me.
You should report that seller, in related news: Microsoft targets auctioneers of pirated software. So, it would be logical for that person to be banned, especially if they're peddling stolen Microsoft software on that site too.
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