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The article refers to "physical media" as though that was previously representative of actual ownership. Adobe "sold" versions of its creative suite that are no longer installable even if you have the physical media: Because they "had to shut down the activation servers". This practice should be part of that legislation - retroactively even.

Owners of a digitally disabled version should automatically get access to whatever the current version is. If Adobe isn't okay with that, I'm sure they can find a way to run that obviously heavily burdened server to activate what must be millions of calls. /s