There is a lot of hype surrounding the free version of Adobe CS2. You do need an Adobe account to download the files, but it's completely free to create one. While the software will have issues with some newer computers and though the software is dated, it's all here on Adobe's site, serial numbers and all.
In an interesting move, Adobe has made the 2005 CS2 Premium Plus suite available as a free download for Windows and Mac platforms. As stated, Arstechnica has a more thorough explanation if you want to know more. After realizing their mistake, they briefly made another, removing the requirement to enter an Adobe ID altogether, before finally shutting down the links and redirecting those who visited them to the current CS6 site. For some reason, they chose to provide free access to these customers (and everyone, subsequently) to a new, downloadable version with serial numbers that would not require activation, but that would at least unlock the software - all you needed to do was create or use your existing Adobe ID.
In short, Adobe wanted to help those who still had valid, purchased CS2 licenses be able to still activate new installations (if they, say, changed computers or hard drives) after they had retired the CS2 activation server.
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