Activation of old CS no longer working

Cosa è,

This is hopefully decisive good news.

Here are the instructions kindly given by an Adobe staff friend:

Your next steps are to contact our support team at https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html .  Once there you can request to be put in contact with our Adobe Genuine team.  If your serial number has been listed as invalid or revoked then the Adobe Genuine team will be able to help you.

In this context I believe it is convenient for you to have the screenshot of the Adobe site with serial numbers and photo(s) of the original DVDs ready to upload.

I hope you will share your findings.

Go to https://community.adobe.com/t5/get-started/activation-for-cs3-cs3-is-a-dead-product/td-p/10879197

Scroll down and read what Nancy said 18 minutes ago, as of this time (12:36 Pacific USA)

Where she discusses the license that covers Adobe stopping service for a program

Cosa è, linsims,

As I understand the current support conditions, you can always get help from the Support (chat team) with the issue of having reached the maximum amount of allowable activations, no need to alert anyone.

But that is only the non exclusive general exception from the non CS support: you can also get Support help with other activation errors evaluated on a case by case basis.

I believe that erroneous claims of stolen licences in the automatic activation procedure would be a case obviously evaluated to be coverable by Support (on a case by case basis), also in order to avoid similar future cases by weeding out such errors in the activation procedure.

Hence my alerting our Adobe friends, hoping that this can be dealt with as such a special case.

I hope that  Jacob_Bugge's friend can help with the activation for CS5.5 and CS6, assuming that the activation limit is the issue. When you talk to them, or to customer support, be certain to emphasize that you need help with an activation limit, as deactivating or resetting the activation limit is apparently the only help that customer support is allowed to provide on Creative Suites 4 through 6. 

Unfortunately, no one is going to be able to help you with CS3. As I understand it, official Adobe policy is that CS1 through CS3 are no longer supported in any way, shape, or form. If you happen to have the installation disks, you can still install CS3 on your computer, but you won't be able to activate it.

You are welcome, Cosa è.

Early yesterday (on the day of rest, and after just 10 hours), the alert was passed on to a second Adobe friend.

Cosa è,

I (mis)understand your question a little differently, namely that you had bought a number of CS versions directly from Adobe (before your current CC licences), and that claims of stolen licences appeared automatically in connexion with your failed attempt to activate them (which would indeed seem unthinkable given their origin), and that Support have simply been unable to help overcome the issue, however friendly.

Based on this, I have tried to alert an Adobe friend who may be able to (alert someone able to) help you.

Since (almost) everyone seems to believe that it is New Year in these hours (followed by a day of rest), it may be a wee while before anything can happen.

Other users can't help, and you say that Adobe support has told you that you have a serial number that was stolen... not by you, by the person who sold you the product

Invalid Serial Number https://community.adobe.com/t5/Get-Started/I-purchased-CS5-years-ago-but-attempts-to-download-it-now-fail/td-p/9246661
-https://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/global/invalid-revoked-serial-numbers.html
-and revoked volume number https://community.adobe.com/t5/Get-Started/Feeling-cheated-CS6-serial-number-revoked/td-p/9807405