David Lawrence
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[Andy Field] “Walter Biscardi with a reasoned clear headed assessment “
Well reasoned, but I respectfully disagree with this one line:
[Walter Biscardi] “If you’re not happy, then please please, find something else and move on.”
I disagree. There are important digital rights issues at play here. Now more than ever, Adobe needs to hear from customers like myself who value the security of perpetual licensing.
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[Herb Sevush] “And now with the chance to break PPro into the forefront, they piss all over themselves. No matter the eventual success of this move, it is a marketing blunder, confirming everything I learned in my 15 years of doing industrials, which is that most large corporations are headed by boobs that I wouldn’t trust to wash my car.”
Well said.
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I’ll be keeping my eye on Lightworks…
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Perhaps. The flip side is that the most pirated software in the world might be able to be legally purchased by more users than ever?”
Absolutely. I have no doubt it will lead to more legal purchases because the cost of entry is so low.
At the same time, I also guarantee the authentication check will be cracked within a week of release. The people who want to pirate will continue to pirate. DRM doesn’t work. It only penalizes honest users.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “I get the concern, I really do. This represents rather large digital rights issues that don’t pertain only to an Adobe Cloud membership.”
Yes, this is true. The digital rights issues are deep and go far beyond Adobe.
But I think they’ve really stepped in it. Forcing every Photoshop user in the world into software rental is not gonna go over well. I predict they will eventually be forced to backtrack.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “Legally, none of this software is your digital property and never really has been, you just pay for the rights to use it.”
That’s debatable:
https://www.eff.org/search/site/eula
Also, I’m talking about access to the digital properties I create using the tools I buy from vendors. If I cannot open the files I create without paying the vendor in perpetuity, then I do not control access to my digital property. The vendor does. Unacceptable.
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[Jeremy Garchow] “It’s not about the money, but it’s about the money.”
It’s not about the money. It’s about who controls access to your digital property.
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[Craig Seeman] “The Verge says Photoshop to be subscription only as well.”
Wow. That will not go over well.
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Wow. And I thought Apple made the mother of all marketing blunders. Good job Adobe, you win the prize. Any bets on how long before the backlash forces them to walk this back?
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[Bill Davis] “It’s the same thing, isn’t it? Just implemented differently and a bit more flexibly since because the role tags are text based – you can sort, search and highlight them in the timeline index – something you just cant do with an abstract idea like a visual color tag.”
Actually, words are far more abstract than color. Color is instant visual identification and recognition. Words are a jumble of similar letters that have to be unpacked for semantic meaning. For visually-oriented thinkers, it’s often much faster and easier to see color than to read words.
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