Serial for bundled software

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dokee
May 27, 2004
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Hello to you all! I have recently purchased a scanner with Adobe Photoshop album included (bundled) in the package.
During installation it required a serial number. however there is no serial number attached or included on or in the shrinkfit wrapper.

I have visited the Adobe site and it seems the only option is to telephone the USA for assistance re serials. not a good solution for a someone residing outside the USA. Yes I’ve tried the local area option from the main Adobe site only to be returned to the main US page.

Can anyone help? I feel that I am justified in requesting this assistance as the software is probably a crippled version anyway and appears to be dated 12-02. Secondly I cannot evaluate the software if I cannot use it.

Win XP

Many thanks,

Bob.

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Gene Palmiter
May 27, 2004
go to any search engine…type in Adobe Album Serial….and have a good time.

"Barry." wrote in message
Hello to you all! I have recently purchased a scanner with Adobe Photoshop album included (bundled) in the package.
During installation it required a serial number. however there is no serial number attached or included on or in the shrinkfit wrapper.
I have visited the Adobe site and it seems the only option is to telephone the USA for assistance re serials. not a good solution for a someone residing outside the USA. Yes I’ve tried the local area option from the main Adobe site only to be returned to the main US page.
Can anyone help? I feel that I am justified in requesting this assistance as the software is probably a crippled version anyway and appears to be dated 12-02. Secondly I cannot evaluate the software if I cannot use it.

Win XP

Many thanks,

Bob.
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dokee
May 28, 2004
On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:27 GMT, "Gene Palmiter" wrote:

type in Adobe Album Serial.

Thanks to Jim Guest who Emails me each post I place on this NG and this post urging me to visit crack sites. However I am requesting a serial for a legitimate program boxed with a scanner. By the way Jim your Emails are now consigned to the recycle bin!

Thanks but no thanks!

Barry.
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David Haley
May 28, 2004
This day of Fri, 28 May 2004 20:54:36 +1000, Barry.
proclaimed:

Thanks to Jim Guest who Emails me each post I place on this NG and this post urging me to visit crack sites. However I am requesting a serial for a legitimate program boxed with a scanner. By the way Jim your Emails are now consigned to the recycle bin!

How did you expect to obtain a serial number any way but illegally if you don’t get it from Adobe?

-dhaley


~david-haley
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Stuart
May 28, 2004
Barry. wrote:
Hello to you all! I have recently purchased a scanner with Adobe Photoshop album included (bundled) in the package.
During installation it required a serial number. however there is no serial number attached or included on or in the shrinkfit wrapper.

Is there anything written on the disc label or contained in a file on the disc?

Seems really odd that a program requiring a serial number does not contain one in the packaging somewhere.

I have visited the Adobe site and it seems the only option is to telephone the USA for assistance re serials. not a good solution for a someone residing outside the USA. Yes I’ve tried the local area option from the main Adobe site only to be returned to the main US page.

What about contacting the place you purchased the scanner from?

Can anyone help? I feel that I am justified in requesting this assistance as the software is probably a crippled version anyway and appears to be dated 12-02. Secondly I cannot evaluate the software if I cannot use it.

That is what demo versions are for.

Stuart

Win XP

Many thanks,

Bob.
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John
May 28, 2004
On Fri, 28 May 2004 20:54:36 +1000, Barry. wrote:

On Thu, 27 May 2004 10:35:27 GMT, "Gene Palmiter" wrote:

type in Adobe Album Serial.

Thanks to Jim Guest who Emails me each post I place on this NG and this post urging me to visit crack sites. However I am requesting a serial for a legitimate program boxed with a scanner. By the way Jim your Emails are now consigned to the recycle bin!

Thanks but no thanks!

Barry.

You do not want to / cannot contact Adobe ?
You have cot a legit copy of Album that you paid for ?
You cannot use it as you do not have a serial ?

You have two choices
Contact Adobe
Get a serial from the www

Where else do you expect a serial to come from.
No one in this group will give you one from their copy

John
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JJS
May 28, 2004
Very often the serial number for bundled software is on a label inside the install document.
Let me guess: you haven’t cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?
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John
May 28, 2004
On Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:36 -0500, "jjs" wrote:

Very often the serial number for bundled software is on a label inside the install document.
Let me guess: you haven’t cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?

you are replying to the wrong person. I tried Album and did not like it at all.

John
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Gene Palmiter
May 28, 2004
Same here…I got a free copy with some hardware….put it on….looked at it…took it off and gave it away.

"John" wrote in message
On Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:36 -0500, "jjs" wrote:
Very often the serial number for bundled software is on a label inside
the
install document.
Let me guess: you haven’t cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?

you are replying to the wrong person. I tried Album and did not like it at all.

John
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john
May 29, 2004
In article , wrote:

On Fri, 28 May 2004 16:57:36 -0500, "jjs" wrote:
Very often the serial number for bundled software is on a label inside the install document.
Let me guess: you haven’t cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?

you are replying to the wrong person. I tried Album and did not like it at all.

Sorry it looked like that, John. To clarify, I wasn’t responding to you, but to the OP. 🙁
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dokee
May 29, 2004
To answer some of the comments.

That is what demo versions are for.

Precisely

How did you expect to obtain a serial number any way but illegally if you don’t get it from Adobe?

Simple!! Have it included with the CD

Did I pay for the copy..YES it came bundled with a recent scanner, I have already mentioned that in my initial post if you care to read before you critisize..

Let me guess: you haven’t cracked the install doc yet. How did I do?

You did very badly! The CD was in a thin paper envelope with a transparent front, nothing is written on the envelope at all. What install doc? There was no mention of Adobe in the scanner docs or any adobe related literature in the unopened scanner box.

All contents of the box are still to hand and have been searched a number of times. Please don’t judge everyone like yourself for incompetance! Installation instructions up to the serial request are no more than following the on screen prompts after an auto boot.

Given some of the comments as to the uselessness of the program. Telephoning Adobe from outside the US waiting for someone to eventually answer my request only to find the programme is worthless is not a viable option.

One wonders why a serial is required for an old, probably crippled version anyway. I requested assistance here under the impression that there may be a standard serial number to open only demo software, or that someone may have bundled software that Adobe remembered to add the serial somewhere on the packaging.

Even though I made it plain that I was not asking for the serial number of the latest full version I still seem to have been branded a cheat.

Strange folk these Adobe users! One must conclude that Adobe does not really want new users to evaluate even older versions their software.

Thanks to those who posted rational replies, as to those who did not then please read the origional post carefully before replying critically.

Stick your Adobe software where it hurts most!

Barry.
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David Haley
May 29, 2004
This day of Sat, 29 May 2004 18:38:45 +1000, Barry.
proclaimed:

To answer some of the comments.

That is what demo versions are for.

Precisely

How did you expect to obtain a serial number any way but illegally if you don’t get it from Adobe?

Simple!! Have it included with the CD

Did I pay for the copy..YES it came bundled with a recent scanner, I have already mentioned that in my initial post if you care to read before you critisize..

With all due respect, I don’t think you understood my question. Or perhaps you didn’t read the second half: ‘if you don’t get it from Adobe’ (bundled with the CD.) If you didn’t get the serial number from Adobe – which is where your software comes from – how did you expect to get it legally?

You should contact the vendor of your scanner. If you ask for a serial number online, then you are basically asking for something illegal.

One wonders why a serial is required for an old, probably crippled version anyway. I requested assistance here under the impression that there may be a standard serial number to open only demo software, or that someone may have bundled software that Adobe remembered to add the serial somewhere on the packaging.

It would be illegal to use somebody else’s serial number. You know that, right? You know that serial numbers are for full versions, and not demo versions, don’t you?

-dhaley


~david-haley
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dokee
May 30, 2004
You should contact the vendor of your scanner. If you ask for a serial number online, then you are basically asking for something illegal.

Basically I am asking for a serial of an old version of bundled, therefore paid for software. What IS illegal is using full version software that has not been paid for.

Asking here "I thought" would have been easier that contacting the vendor.

It would be illegal to use somebody else’s serial number. You know that, right?

What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately, where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?

You know that serial numbers are for full versions, and not demo versions, don’t you?

What I know is that (as stated in my first post) is that the "Full" version is dated 12/02 so is virtually a demo compared to the latest, at least I presume that Adobe has updated since then.

Bye bye not buy any Adobe.

Barry
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john
May 30, 2004
In article , Barry
wrote:

What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately, where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?

No, it is not immaterial. Did you look in all the material they sent you? Did they include the software on a disc? And I forgot, but what product did you buy that include the Adobe program?If anyone’s acting strangely, it’s not Adobe. It’s the vendor who bungled, I mean bundled it.
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Gene Palmiter
May 30, 2004
Now that we have discussed this far too long we are back to where I was at the start….just go get a serial. I am not at all sure that its illegal to do so. Oh, I suppose they copyright the serial too…but really! Get a serial any way you choose. But, if you bought the software…make it work…download a serial.

And if we seem rude to you…its because we get all kinds here. And people who ask for help and then don’t accept it are really just wasting our time.

"jjs" wrote in message
In article , Barry
wrote:

What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately, where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?

No, it is not immaterial. Did you look in all the material they sent you? Did they include the software on a disc? And I forgot, but what product did you buy that include the Adobe program?If anyone’s acting strangely, it’s not Adobe. It’s the vendor who bungled, I mean bundled it.
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David Haley
May 30, 2004
This day of Sun, 30 May 2004 13:52:30 +1000, Barry
proclaimed:

You should contact the vendor of your scanner. If you ask for a serial number online, then you are basically asking for something illegal.

Basically I am asking for a serial of an old version of bundled, therefore paid for software. What IS illegal is using full version software that has not been paid for.

It’s also illegal for us to give you serial numbers. For all we know you may be lying to us and trying to crack a stolen version.

Asking here "I thought" would have been easier that contacting the vendor.

No offense but you thought wrong. 🙂

It would be illegal to use somebody else’s serial number. You know that, right?

What I know is that provided the software was purchased ligitimately, where the serial was obtained is immaterial. Right?

Wrong. Legitimately purchased software is supposed to come with a serial number. If it didn’t, go talk to whoever sold you the software.

You know that serial numbers are for full versions, and not demo versions, don’t you?

What I know is that (as stated in my first post) is that the "Full" version is dated 12/02 so is virtually a demo compared to the latest, at least I presume that Adobe has updated since then.

Bye bye not buy any Adobe.

Barry

Well, you have an old version, but that hardly makes it a demo. It’s not as if Adobe is giving away Photoshop 5, 6 or 7, you know, now that 8 is out. In fact, very few companies give away free versions of their software, especially if the ‘old’ version isn’t even two years old yet.

In any case, for us to give you a serial number would not be entirely legal. You may be honest, in which case you should talk to the vendor like an honest person would do. Asking on the Internet for a serial number when you could just as easily contact your vendor (not necessarily Adobe) just seems slightly dishonest.

-dhaley


~david-haley
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Tony Cooper
Jun 22, 2004
On Sat, 29 May 2004 22:47:26 -0700, David Haley
wrote:

Wrong. Legitimately purchased software is supposed to come with a serial number. If it didn’t, go talk to whoever sold you the software.
As a blanket statement, that’s ridiculous. The original question related to software that was bundled with a hardware purchase. The software was *not* purchased nor should it have been. It is a legitimate promotional gift from the originator of the software in conjunction with the purchase of hardware.

The software provider is gambling that the user will like the scaled-down bundled version enough that he will purchase the complete version. There is no obligation on the part of the customer to like the scaled-down version enough to be interested in the full version. He may well be completely satisfied with the demo version. Again, that’s a gamble the software provider takes.

Often serial numbers for demo or bundled versions are on the CD jacket and not permanently retained by the customer. In the case of a re-format, the customer may have the disk but not the serial number. It’s a perfectly legitimate request to send out an appeal for a working serial number.

There is a reason to post the request here and not go the manufacturer. It may be days before the manufacturer responds, and an answer may be provided here within hours.

If you don’t choose to help, adopting a snotty
purer-than-the-driven-snow attitude is a waste of bandwidth and energy. If you suspect that poster is asking for a serial number of a program that was not a bundled demo, just STFU and go on to a post where you can either help or be helped. No one cares about your alleged high moral values.

My inclination is to believe the poster and accept that he’s asking for a serial number for a promotional demo. People that routinely use pirate software are well aware of the Warez sites where they can go for cracks. They don’t bother with newsgroups like this.

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