[LINK] It's cheaper to fly to the USA than buy Adobe CS6 in Australia (was Re: sigh

[Gordon Keith]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:21:29 AM John Hilvert wrote:
> As long as the software install does not check for your IP address when
> registering to activate fully (does not seem to require this for any Adobe
> product I've purchased so far), it's all good.

http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3449831&cid=42856225

> > Don't worry, that won't be the case for long, (and not in a good way)
> > companies would love to make buying something outside your local
> > authorized dealer illegal.
> 
> It may not be illegal yet, but Adobe has already moved in that direction.
> 
> Adobe closed off their international sales for several weeks while they
> reviewed their international pricing, right as we needed to bring on more
> people for a new project. After a few weeks of being told we'd be able to
> buy more licenses any day now, we sent someone to the US to buy a couple of
> retail copies so we could at least have new people doing more than just
> surfing the net. Within 24 hours of installing the US boxed copies we had
> Adobe on the phone demanding to know why our company was running pirated
> copies of their software, and threatening to revoke *all* of our licenses if
> we didn't remove them immediately. Turns out they consider running a US
> boxed copy in a foreign country as a breach of contract and will cut you
> off. Eventually they had to admit that we had been trying, continuously, to
> buy a copy from them, and agreed to let us continue until their online store
> reopened so we could replace the copies we were running.

Regards
Gordon