Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-31 Thread Rob Studdert
On 1 April 2013 08:09, John Sessoms wrote: > Since I first built it, it has gone from Windows95 to Windoze98 to > WindozeNT 4.0 to WindozeXP Pro - ALL OEM versions. Hi John, What you say has been my experience also but from Vista onwards it's a different story, the software is serial number con

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-31 Thread John Sessoms
From: Aahz Maruch On Sat, Mar 30, 2013, John Sessoms wrote: I was able to buy Windoze 7 Pro 64-bit OEM version when I was building my new Photoshop computer last year. My strong recommendation is to avoid OEM Windows if there's any likelihood you'll change the hardware significantly before ch

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-31 Thread Aahz Maruch
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013, John Sessoms wrote: > > I was able to buy Windoze 7 Pro 64-bit OEM version when I was building > my new Photoshop computer last year. My strong recommendation is to avoid OEM Windows if there's any likelihood you'll change the hardware significantly before changing Windows v

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-30 Thread Jens
Thanks very much all. I have now decided to either simply purchase a normal CS6 licens or to subscribe to a single app Creative Cloud membershib - directly from (real) Adobe :-) T. Regardshe latter is a little expensive over time, but then I'm always updated with the latest Photoshop version :

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: Mark Roberts David Parsons wrote: OEM software means that you buy the software with hardware. It's legal to buy in the US too. The website though is a total scam. One thing that legit sellers used to do back in the day was to sell you OEM versions of Office or Windows with a fan or blan

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-30 Thread John Sessoms
You can still do that. It's more common to buy OEM Windoze along with a hard-drive or a mother board rather than such minor parts. I was able to buy Windoze 7 Pro 64-bit OEM version when I was building my new Photoshop computer last year. From: David Parsons OEM software means that you buy the

RE: OT: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-30 Thread John Sessoms
From: "Jens" Hi guys I saw this by chance: http://www.websoft.ws/pages/FAQ.html Could this be legal? Regards Jens Probably not in the USA. It might not be illegal in the Eurozone. You might get usable software or you might not. You certainly won't get support from Adobe & you probably won't h

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Stenquist
The Epson V500 scanner I bought last week came with a PC version of Elements 10. I gave the disc to my daughter who has a PC. Paul On Mar 29, 2013, at 11:24 PM, Brian Walters wrote: > Quoting steve harley : > >> on 2013-03-29 19:13 Mark Roberts wrote >>> Plus, I don't think Adobe *ever* did OEM

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Brian Walters
Quoting steve harley : on 2013-03-29 19:13 Mark Roberts wrote Plus, I don't think Adobe *ever* did OEM software. When did anyone ever buy a computer with Photoshop pre-installed? they do very little OEM, but they do some; i got the full version of Photoshop 5.5 with my Umax Astra 6400 scann

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread steve harley
on 2013-03-29 19:13 Mark Roberts wrote Plus, I don't think Adobe *ever* did OEM software. When did anyone ever buy a computer with Photoshop pre-installed? they do very little OEM, but they do some; i got the full version of Photoshop 5.5 with my Umax Astra 6400 scanner, and a full version of

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Mark Roberts
David Parsons wrote: >OEM software means that you buy the software with hardware. It's >legal to buy in the US too. The website though is a total scam. > >One thing that legit sellers used to do back in the day was to sell >you OEM versions of Office or Windows with a fan or blank drive panel, >

Re: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread David Parsons
OEM software means that you buy the software with hardware. It's legal to buy in the US too. The website though is a total scam. One thing that legit sellers used to do back in the day was to sell you OEM versions of Office or Windows with a fan or blank drive panel, or even a screw. This was a

Re: {SPAM 06.9} OT: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread steve harley
on 2013-03-29 14:38 Jens wrote Hi guys I saw this by chance: http://www.websoft.ws/pages/FAQ.html Could this be legal? pretends to be Adobe website; support phone number associated with credit card fraud: very poor ratin

Re: OT: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Darren Addy
I'm reminded of the old chestnut "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably IS." On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Charles Robinson wrote: > On Mar 29, 2013, at 15:38 , Jens wrote: > >> Hi guys >> I saw this by chance: >> http://www.websoft.ws/pages/FAQ.html >> Could this be legal? >> > > Sa

RE: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Bob W
> From: PDML [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Jens > > Hi guys > I saw this by chance: > http://www.websoft.ws/pages/FAQ.html > Could this be legal? > > Regards > Jens it probably depends on where you are. I think that in the EU it's ok to buy OEM software (disclaimer: this is an opin

Re: OT: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Charles Robinson
On Mar 29, 2013, at 15:38 , Jens wrote: > Hi guys > I saw this by chance: > http://www.websoft.ws/pages/FAQ.html > Could this be legal? > Samoan top-level domain? "Whois" points to an address in the British Virgin Isles? Oh, I'm sure it's all 100% legit! -Charles -- Charles Robinson - cha

OT: Very Cheap Adone (Photoshop) licenses - is this legal?

2013-03-29 Thread Jens
Hi guys I saw this by chance: http://www.websoft.ws/pages/FAQ.html Could this be legal? Regards Jens -- Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please vis

Re: is this legal?

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Roberts
Mark Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Frits Wüthrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>http://oem-box.biz/?id=seashore&at=bequeath&href=thump >>Adobe Photoshop 7 for $59.95? > >This web site is hosted on a home computer on a North Carolina >Roadrunner cable connection, which is in violation of Roa

Re: is this legal?

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Roberts
Frits Wüthrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >http://oem-box.biz/?id=seashore&at=bequeath&href=thump >Adobe Photoshop 7 for $59.95? This web site is hosted on a home computer on a North Carolina Roadrunner cable connection, which is in violation of Roadrunner's service agreement, I believe. But I wo