It is illegal to break the terms of service for Adobe. I’m not exactly shedding tears for Adobe (they are a pain) but to comply with the legal requirements you need to follow there terrible rules and policies.
Adobe’s Creative Cloud for enterprise, Individual, or Single App Terms of Use permit deployment in a VM. Even if they didn’t, it’s not illegal to violate software terms of use, though it could open you up to a breach of contract.
It’s not illegal to violate terms of service, at worst it’s breach of contract. What policy does it even violate? As best as I can tell Windows licenses are transferrable by first owner provided they aren’t installed on another machine.
That’s not legal
Illegal stuff is bad, m’kay?
Anti Commercial-AI license
It is illegal to break the terms of service for Adobe. I’m not exactly shedding tears for Adobe (they are a pain) but to comply with the legal requirements you need to follow there terrible rules and policies.
Why? If you buy a retail version, then there are no limitations on where you install it.
You need to buy it directly from Adobe or an official seller.
Unless you are into piracy but from.the sounds of it this person isn’t
What law does it break?
Adobe licensing
Adobe’s Creative Cloud for enterprise, Individual, or Single App Terms of Use permit deployment in a VM. Even if they didn’t, it’s not illegal to violate software terms of use, though it could open you up to a breach of contract.
I meant the $7 license
What’s illegal about a $7 windows license?
It violates Microsoft policies
It’s not illegal to violate terms of service, at worst it’s breach of contract. What policy does it even violate? As best as I can tell Windows licenses are transferrable by first owner provided they aren’t installed on another machine.
I’m not a lawyer but it seems like a copyright infringement. Historically Microsoft would of gone after Greg market stuff but now we are the product.