As a private pilot for many years I can tell you this will be shut down so fast by the Federal Aviation Administration your head may spin. Don't make any plans!

Hi-res versions of the maps are fifty dollars each. No kidding. I thought we could trust our libraries at least not to gouge too much...

Don't get too excited, Hi-Res versions are not free- but a whopping $50.00. Hey, It was a library, but I should have known better than to elevate my hopes...

Patching the software's backdoor would be lots easier than cracking it.

Mod parent up. This post should have a five rating. This could be how We The People are finally brought to heel... the government / content providers may be playing a very long game. When almost nothing but TPM computers exist anymore, congress could easily authorize agencies or **AAs or the like to offer privileges or access ONLY to folks with TPM. Hey, even WITHOUT congressional approval, what stops a content provider from including a secret from the TPM for its new content-protection scheme? Maybe they don't want to shoot this bolt until it can't be worked around; and that is truly playing the very long game. Are we circumspect enough... ?

If CS6, which calls home, can be patched or cracked, then CC, which calls home monthly, can be pirated too. There is a bit or variable somewhere in the version of CC on your local disk that says "paid up". How hard is it going to be to find what changes after a call home, generate the correct bit or data for your system, and apply it like any other crack? If Adobe thinks this will make them more money because no more piracy, BOY are they wrong. Now the pirates can pirate the latest version every day directly from Adobe because they've faked having paid their CC bill. This is much worse than Vista for Microsoft. I would predict mass firings at Adobe when this became apparent, but I have a feeling Chizen is onboard with it. He won't fire himself, just his friends and colleagues who agreed with him it sounded like a good idea. Adobe, take a lesson from TurboTax, who got so badly burned with their DRM they undid it all and offered a public apology.