Deactivation is just deactivation. It changes nothing about who owns the right to install that copy. If a first person sells his to a second person and does not notify Adobe the software still stays registered to the first person and when the 2nd goes to activate it again it can cause major problems for the buyer. Your Adobe activation checks the not just your serial but the individual system # of your machine. You can deactivate and transfer it to another machine or sell it outright but not notifying Adobe can cause issues when activating again. That's new to CS6 I think but I've read on the forum that If the upon 2nd activation the system ID # and the copy don't match activation can fail and you'll just get a message to contact Adobe anyway. They do like an official transference at Adobe. They've gotten rather draconian about activation and transference of late.
I sometimes think that if they really had their way they'd be fingerprinting you and photographing you for an online data bank at this point. Supposedly this is to protect the legitimate buyers from scam copies but from what I can tell that doesn't protect anyone from buying illegitimate software or downloading it. It only annoys the people who do buy it legitimately. The CS6 suite was totally hacked and all over the internet with a week's release of the new suite, as usual, so the only people it stopped were their legit customers not the software pirates. The Adobe applications are by far the most pirated applications ever, with the exception of Microsoft's OS's. They have been for years. When I was in school even the teachers had bootleg copies at home and every student I knew had Photoshop at least, and that was despite there being more reasonably priced educational copies out there. Everytime they release a new version they try to make it even harder but in the end the pirates win, the real customers end up inconvenienced, and it's the same old song. Waste of effort, IMHO, but it's Adobe's decision, shrug.
Personally I think if they just priced it a lot lower so many people wouldn't be so tempted to go there. 2K plus for a graphics suite is just too much I think and upgrades aren't exactly cheap either. But I must admit I like their applications above all. I've got a couple of others by Corel and GIMP I like them in addition to Adobe but they just cannot totally replace the Adobe applications for me. I wish. But they just can't. Paint Shop Pro and Painter are great applications in their own right, and for people who don't work in graphics they do very well, but they are just not as fully featured as the Adobe applications for someone like me. I'm a power user. There's no way around that. I can do some things in other graphics applications and do, but in the end I'm always back in CR, BR, and Photoshop.
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