Adobe sharing your email address with spammers

On 16th Jan 2009 I downloaded Adobe Flash player. To do this
I was required to provide an email address. As I can't stand spam,
I bought my own domain, and never provide the same email address
twice. Different person or company, different email address
provided. Yes, it's a bit more work, but you do get to find out who
is spamming, and who is selling your email address to spammers.
Okay, so today 26th March 2009, I get an email with following
contents:
and one night she captured my soul
kuavnaibezi.com
***** couple,how spend moments together....
The email was supposedly from "Chadwick Witten", with "from"
address of "[email protected]". The site being promoted sells
viagra etc.
The email address that this spam was sent to was provided on
the adobe flash download site in a form, and nowhere else.
I expect that the above spam will also be sent to most of the
people in this forum. Now you know why it got to you.

Hate to break it to you, but that does not specifically
implicate Adobe in the leaking of that email address.
It means 1 of 2 things:
1. As you say, Adobe shares
OR
2. That form has been compromised by a hacker.
BUT
I never gave Adobe my email address to download the
flashPlayer - are you sure you were on the Adobe site and not a
mocked one?
|| EDIT ||
Just confirmed my suspiction myself. Went to
http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer
(the official page) and all that I was presented with to get the
download was a button. Click the button, the install happens - no
email to input.

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