Adobe on MAC

Getting a MAC is one thing, getting software for it is another. I was surprised how people around the world would go so far to use pirated software. While I was looking around Adobe CS4 for MAC, I found this guy who disabled his internet just to stop online activations! The era of offline activation has ended because its just too risky with cracks and patches, but even in this era of online activation, people use offline computers!

With this snippet of code at the Terminal, you give TextEdit sudo persmission (“administrative” rights), to edit your hosts file on MAC.

sudo /Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/TextEdit /etc/hosts

There, you add the following entries to redirect any outgoing adobe connections to your local IP.

127.0.0.1 activate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 practivate.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 3dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-2.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 adobe-dns-3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 ereg.wip3.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sea.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 wwis-dubc1-vip60.adobe.com
127.0.0.1 activate-sjc0.adobe.com

Supposedly, adding anywhere between localhost and broadbandhost works!