Thinking of buying from eBay?

Jason

The educational version can be used commercially. The student version (lower price and stricter availability) cannot be used commercially.

Jason, you are wrong as far as Adobe software (at least in most countries) is concerned. This topic has been discussed to death in other threads and should not be further discussed here.

This is a PIRACY WARNING thread!

Oops...guess I spoke too soon. :-)

http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/pdfs/Gen_WWCombined-combined-20080623_1026.pdf

Section 16.3:
Educational Software Product. If the Software is Educational Software Product (Software manufactured and distributed for use by only Educational End Users), you are not entitled to use the Software unless you qualify in your jurisdiction as an Educational End User.

That pretty much sums up that it can only be used for Educational purposes.. if you're using it in a commercial capacity, you aren't an Educational End User.. you're a commercial end user.. you may have qualified to BUY the Educational version, but that doesn't mean it can be used commercially.

J

check http://www.bsa.org/

Software licensing is such a complex subject, second only I'm sure to book publishing and music licensing! I'm surprised there aren't any software licensing "police" yet like the music industry has (ASCAP, BMI). :-)

Yes, thanks. That makes sense. I wouldn't use it professionally or for business purposes anyway.

Also remember that academic licenses don't permit the commercial use of the product... so you can't use it for work purposes!

You need a student ID to buy from www.studica.com

I don't think they require a grade report... go check

Thanks again guys. I would bet you're right...quite a savings and I might actually learn something about Photoshop also (although I won't have any high expectations of that). Hey I don't actually have to attend classes after I register and pay right? :-)