I want to buy your software

A friend of the U.S. gave me a present some time ago: the Macromedia

Adobe Dreamweaver 2004 program. Yes, with a serial number. Absolutely legal. Now I want to upgrade it and buy the whole MX suite.

(Voices from the crowd: “You fool”)

I still want to buy it. Yes, I still live in Greece. But today I saw I can’t. It is impossible. Here is why:
I connect with the Adobe website and I login with my

Adobe username/password. The system recognizes that I come from Greece. But there is no way I can download any software by charging my credit card. If a was a Turkish, a Bulgarian etc. there would have been a link for me. Most of the times software vendors do not care about your nationality. They just charge your card and they provide you a download link. Simple as that.

Adobe wants to “push” its clients to the local e-store. Fine. But this blessed country, Greece, is nowhere in the virtual map. Instead you need to contact the reseller of Adobe products in Greece. The reseller claims he can undertake the procedure. What a lousy lie! His so-called e-store doesn’t provide a link for the specific product.

What alternatives do I have?

• To order the suite from the U.S. – forget it. I ‘ll have to wait for weeks before I get the damned software in my hands.
• To login as a U.S. (or whatever) client and cheat the system – it doesn’t work. You need to provide a valid U.S. credit card number.
• To visit the local reseller in order to learn how much it costs (because these guys do not even inform us about the price) and buy it – no way. I don’t want to give you a cent.

Hey guys are you listening to me? I don’t want to crack, patch, fuck your software. I want to buy it! It seems you don’t want me to. So I ‘ll crack, patch, fuck it. Or I ‘ll buy something else.