Adobe has announced that its software services will no longer be available in Venezuela in compliance with US sanctions implemented by President Donald Trump in August. Existing users have until 28 October to download any cloud-based content, after which time accounts will be deactivated. According to Adobe’s help pages, there is no date at present for reinstating the services but they “will continue to monitor developments closely and will make every effort to restore services to Venezuela as soon as it is legally permissible to do so”. Due to its subscription model, this means users will not be able to continue to use the software, nor can they buy a standalone version. Behance is not affected by this sanction. Read more on Adobe’s help site.
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Now, do you understand why renting licenses is a really bad thing ?
For real, an unexpected consequence of sanctions and rental scheme. I wonder if its the same for Iran.
No it’s not! we Crack’em here, I thank you 😉
Nevertheless you can’t lose what you never had :))
It has been like this for us, Iranians, as long as I can remember. Even before subscription models.
We were never able to pay for any kind of product or service that requires access to an international payment service. there are workarounds, but for the average Joe, they don’t worth the headache and the risk.
So we have always pirated stuff, everything from Windows to Adobe and Autodesk products and movies and games and music and TV shows and game consoles and it’s nothing to be happy about, believe me… You don’t know how does it feel to see “Access Denied” when you follow a link to an Adobe help center page or Autodesk forum or you can’t find your country’s name or phone number on a registration form…
Mainstream products and services are quite accessible these days. They are Imported to our country and one can buy a legitimate license of Windows or a Playstation game (having access to online services and support is another story), but there is no reasonable way to access anything else, other than piracy of course.
The whole digital content creation industry in our country is shapes around these circumstances. Even if I can somehow buy a legit copy of a software that I use for my work, financially there is no way that I will be able to compete with others who just download a cracked copy of the same tool.
Generations of people, artists, engineers and technicians are shaped with this mindset, that you can just get a cracked software, or you can just illegally copy or download a movie or a music album. If you think about it, you can see how much of a negative impact it can have on our culture, how it negatively affects our own creators.
Fortunately there are a lot of great free tools available to us. Davinci Resolve, Unity, Visual Studio Community edition, and the entire open source community…
And this is not only reason: rental business doesn’t make company to innovate when cashflow is steady and rental prices can go always up without any real software updates and they can even downgrade their softwares because of 3rd party license issues. Or if adobe hasn’t make right license deals then it will mean something like what happened in old cc version: they are not allowed for 3rd party licenses anymore so old cc users might be sued – i mean this “Adobe warning of legal problems if subscribers keep using old versions of Creative Cloud apps [u]” -source: appleinsider.com
And then there is this unpredictable president and power to do what ever usa leader wants to do.
This why i choose Affinity Photo, Designer and Illustrator. And DaVinci Resolve for video and HitFilm for few tasks. And soundforge, nuendo and wavelab for audio.
And i started to learn Blender and i have been very excited – new 2.8 and experimental branches 2.81 are very interesting and much easier to use than old UI blender and also more stable (this newest stable release 2.8). And now there have been many big corporations like Epic, Ubisoft and Nvidia investing/sponsorin for blender future so i feel much more relaxed to learn it. C4D used to be my first choise but not anymore because new CEO is definitely going to make Maxon new Adobe 🙁 After all he is old adobe worker and most likely trojan horse like Steven Elop was imo. Houdini is still unbeatable with vfx workflow – i hope blender will do something similar at least they are working with “nodes for everything” and mantaflow etc. So there is hope for blender that it can be heavy vfx tool in future. At least i hope so. But sure now Houdini still have perpetual licensing – it would be good if they will keep it that way. But most likely Autodesk will buy Houdini.
Had the dems taken office, that would have never happened. Donny keeps doing what he does best, disrupting the world order that is.
No no the dems will give you anything you want, so would Maduro, and it is absolutely not Adobe’s fault for being greedy beyond greed and choosing a method of distribution so vulnerable to a dozen such political and non political decisions, just as it is also not Blizzard’s fault for sucking communist D**** in China at the expense of everything that made it Blizzard in the first place! Including its own country and the laws that allowed it to happen.
Dems will give you all and watch you live in trash, walk on needles in the streets, live forever in a pod, never have a family, pay more taxes till you burn in the wealthiest states 100% ruled by them in USA and the world. But they love you and care for the babies in Africa and ME. So sweet.
But orange man bad for implementing sanctions against a corrupt to the core, communist self starving, chaos driven country being taken over by sworn enemies next door. I wouldn’t trust them with a pencil let alone a license of any kind.
Many of you Americans will never learn or see the world outside your bubble until it is too late. Just like when Rome collapsed and sent the world into the dark ages, I dare not think what will happen if the west collapses today.
Get off your political high horses and make sense for once, your enemies are laughing at you for falling apart into utter chaos on gender pronouns for the last 10 years, they laugh at you so hard you have no idea including mine.
Oh one last thing sweetheart :), Venezuelans would be just fine with torrents don’t worry, they haven’t had money to pay for food let alone pay licenses to Adobe for a long while now.
I’m sure Adobe wont mind either, their bank accounts wont nudge a bit over this one.
Wait, why we bringing partisan politics to a cg news site?
Errr.. maybe you forgot your meds today?
Trump & Republicans stand 100% for corrupt to the core crony socialism for the rich & mega corporations and hardcore dog-eat-dog ‘free’ capitalism for normal people & small businessowners. Meanwhile, they are refusing to protect election systems against interference from foreign countriwa, and now Trump is just going around the world asking favors to investigate his political opponents. More than 50& of Americans are now ready to impeach and remove him from office, a poll conducted by FOX News. Open your eyes..
Sourcing: ( see no WaPo, NYT, HuffPost or other ‘dishonest’ media )
Trump’s First Annual Budget Deficit Rises to a Six-Year High
Russian interference in US elections far from over
Tucker And Patel: The Truth About Impeachment
Fox News Poll: Record support for Trump impeachment
well said – the ultimate anti-sheep mentality is not to follow the popular view of Hollywood, CNN, popular virtue-signaling sheep – Trump is the resistance against Communism activism – where everyone has to have the view of the state or be cancelled.
USA is such a nice corporation, always looking into the best interest of the people of the world!
Didn’t realize that a lot of anti-Trump memes were coming from Venezuela.
Just wondering.., if they can’t trade in anyway with Venezuela how will they pay the local lawyers/agencies to check for illegal use of cracked versions?
Possibly through a 3rd party agency based in a 3rd state that has local access? Or is that sort of activity also covered by sanctions? I’m not sure they would even bother though – especially given the good-will lost to Venezuelans through this action.
I can’t imagine how regular artists manage to keep their hardware up and running with the shortages of components, patchy internet access, inflation and constant power cuts. I think the principle of this action and the sanctions are questionable for all sorts of reasons – none of which are Adobe’s fault of course. In practical terms though, I’m not sure this will have a huge impact on the art community there, but either way, think respect is due to any artists managing to still scrape a living in Venezuela.
Another reason why politician of the world should be contained in an enclosed space to fight each other while normal people could leave a normal life without them 😉 Seriously artists around the world should not be prevented to work because of political reasons…
And another reason to use Open source softwares!