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        It is illegal to break the terms of service for Adobe. I’m not exactly shedding tears for Adobe (they are a pain) but to comply with the legal requirements you need to follow there terrible rules and policies.

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      Why? If you buy a retail version, then there are no limitations on where you install it.

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        You need to buy it directly from Adobe or an official seller.

        Unless you are into piracy but from.the sounds of it this person isn’t

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          Adobe’s Creative Cloud for enterprise, Individual, or Single App Terms of Use permit deployment in a VM. Even if they didn’t, it’s not illegal to violate software terms of use, though it could open you up to a breach of contract.

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                  It’s not illegal to violate terms of service, at worst it’s breach of contract. What policy does it even violate? As best as I can tell Windows licenses are transferrable by first owner provided they aren’t installed on another machine.

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                    I’m not a lawyer but it seems like a copyright infringement. Historically Microsoft would of gone after Greg market stuff but now we are the product.