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Steve the point you make is sweetly relevant, but some of us have greater contact with Adobe than just the pifling ADE and elibrary stuff.

Adobe's business model now is that it wants to only sell cloud based software and discontinue all cd/dvd based versions of its software, irrespective of whether one is a business or private customer.

To that end it currently sells Creative Cloud products which are the versions later than (for example) CS6 software. (So CS7 if you want to think of it like that)

Adobe is using the euphemism "subscription" to describe the purchase, because one won't ever actually own the software - merely rent it via 'subscription'.

Adobe probably considers that's a good business model because it will stop people being able to 'give away' their very expensive Adobe disk software to their friends etc and ensure that people have to pay via 'subscription' to access it instead.

I foresee that Adobe will draw continuing antagonistic reactions (read hacked) the further they go down this business model route. And probably the main reason will be because the hackers will will be showing that Adobe doesn't live in a 'cloud' but in the real physical world.

Of course, the best solution is people use and support products other than Adobe - but that isn't always possible as in buying a book of your choice with Adobe DRM embedded.

Edit
On reading the info I sourced after writing this post I think that it's now safe to say that the agenda of the hackers responsible for this current Adobe attack is way beyond just those who want to 'share around' Adobe software.