Wednesday, October 9th 2019
Adobe Pulls the Plug on Venezuela, Thousands of CC Users Cut off From Their Apps
With U.S. economic sanctions on Venezuela taking effect, Adobe discontinued its Creative Cloud (CC) subscription service in the country, stranding thousands of creators without their creative apps. Adobe switched to SaaS-only in several markets and the only legal way for creators to use popular Adobe apps such as Photoshop, Premier, Acrobat, Lightroom, and Illustrator, is through CC. Much like Steam, CC is a DRM platform that lets you subscribe to Adobe apps on monthly or annual payment plans, and provides you with the latest versions of the apps, with regular updates. You also get access to cloud-storage an asset library, and a social network of creators.
Adobe's exit from Venezuela isn't sudden, the company has given Venezuelan creators until October 28th to download any content stored on their accounts. From October 29th, Adobe's servers will longer respond to requests from Venezuela. This also means Creative Cloud apps will break. CC authenticates users by dialing home each time an app is launched. If a user is falling behind on subscription payments or if the app can't reach Adobe servers, they are usually given a 14-day grace period before the app stops working. Executive Order 13884 signed by President Trump strips Venezuela of all U.S. businesses, which would include payment processors such as Visa and MasterCard.
Sources:
Aender Lara (Twitter), The Verge
Adobe's exit from Venezuela isn't sudden, the company has given Venezuelan creators until October 28th to download any content stored on their accounts. From October 29th, Adobe's servers will longer respond to requests from Venezuela. This also means Creative Cloud apps will break. CC authenticates users by dialing home each time an app is launched. If a user is falling behind on subscription payments or if the app can't reach Adobe servers, they are usually given a 14-day grace period before the app stops working. Executive Order 13884 signed by President Trump strips Venezuela of all U.S. businesses, which would include payment processors such as Visa and MasterCard.
33 Comments on Adobe Pulls the Plug on Venezuela, Thousands of CC Users Cut off From Their Apps
But I will also say it was Venezuela's fault for not actively trying to diversify its economy and trying to invest in expansion of its agriculture and pharmaceuticals. If you are going to do things that Uncle Sam is not wanting you to do, then you should be prepared to become self reliant so that your own people dont suffer.
So far, many people in the world seem to be conveniently ignoring the protests and outrage going on in Ecuador. Moreno fled the capital to a military base because of the protests. But because he is supported by certain people and Ecuador isn't considered important, their peoples demands are ignored.
Here is a newer one. Do I win? That was one of your qualifiers, right? smh
I dont doubt there are poor people starving. But those are not the people who would be buying Adobe software in the first place. I mean, I can just post videos of homeless tent cities in the United States and state "America has way more pressing issues in housing and feeding their homeless or providing medical assistance to people instead of trying to stir trouble in other countries" but we know that wont solve anything nor really anything to do with this topic altogether.
Sanctioning isn't nice, but useless it most certainly is not. And its not about the individuals, but about the regime as a whole. Sure, the rich get away with it, but that was never the point, they always do. But they still do lose a lot of power and influence, which is the point.South-American socialist states tend to turn into highly corrupt and economical failures. Tropico ad infinitum, really. Not exactly the best neighbours to have. Its a push for capitalist values, goes back to 'fighting the Reds'. The US really doesn't like it and even today many Americans are keen to confuse sensible socialism (it cán be done right, look at Europe) with communism in its worst form.
Remember, Cuba turned into a Soviet launch site at some point, too.And of course there is that. No illusions here...
oddly in modern times besieging the castle isnt seen as warfare.. it should be..
trog
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we suport China and you will just cry :clap: