Freehand MX activation woe's

Question

I have Freehand MX from the Studio MX2004 suite I bought a
few years back. Since then I've upgraded to Studio 8, and now again
to CS 3 (which is awesome).
I don't normally use freehand, and I used to use it on my PC,
but I've moved across to Mac (Studio 8 and MX2004 worked on both).
Now I can install the Freehand software, but when I try activate it
with the serial number I get told "Too Many Activations", and a
number to call at Macromedia. This number goes through to an Adobe
automated system, but there seems to be no way to talk to a human
about this problem?
Very frustrated, especially since I have paid for this
software and I should be allowed to use it.

Answer 1

> Just now some Freehand process reports my serial number
to Adobe in a
> random
> verification or something, and I get flagged as using
cracked software.
> Also,
> it's a principle thing, if I've shelled out cash for
software, I should be
> able
> to use it. :)
That's exactly my point. You do own the software. At this
point, you should
be able to do whatever is easiest to get the damn thing to
run. I had this
very problem the other day. I had FH installed on my own
(non-working)
powerbook and wanted to finally get it on my new MacBook.
Couldn't find the
serial number anywhere, and had no ambition to figure out how
to get the old
PowerBook up and running again. So, I did what was easiest. I
paid for the
damn thing. ;o)
Software activation is one of the more idiotic things
corporate software
companies have done. Yea, let's do nothing to actually
prevent copying of
software...the thing we want to prevent...and instead let's
just make this a
realy pain in the *** for our honest, paying customers.
Brilliant!
-Darrel