Is it possible to get a free student copy of Photoshop?

Hello,
I have just joined a local camera club and at a meeting the President was offering free copies of Photoshop to members. He said it was a free student version and we could download it from his Boxdrop overnight.
He then said we should not load it onto our computers but should run it from a memory stick.
I said that in my opinion this was illegal as Adobe do not give away Photoshop to students or indeed anyone. As far as I know there is only one member of the club who is a student (still at school).
The club president then said "Well, they gave one to me for free". I suggested that if club members wanted to use free software we should consider Gimp, which is open source and free for anyone to use.
I have now discovered that there is a club meting this week to decide on my expulsion from the club because of my views on what I believed to be piracy.
I was only stating my opinion. Have I done something wrong? I am now wondering if he was telling the truth, although it did seem unlikely to me.
If Adobe did give him the student version of Photoshop for free, would that entitle him to give it away to anyone else? I was concerned that if we accepted his offer we would in some way be breaking the law, and therefore was trying to protect myself and other members.
If someone from Adobe could tell me definitively whether or not they do or did give away Photoshop in this manner, I would be extremely grateful. If I have to go back to the membership and eat humble pie, then so be it.
Many Thanks
Tog Porter

It's possible that he has been taken in by a scam on the web. The scam is aimed at claiming that a particular Photoshop ("CS2") is FREE and repeating it often enough that people believe it, and even "reliable" sources repeat the claim.
What actually happened with CS2 is that it stopped working and couldn't be reinstalled. This was because Adobe had turned off the "activation server". Boo!
But then Adobe made a special version of CS2 which didn't need the activation server. Yay!
Now, Adobe didn't want to spend their whole lives sending this to people who were entitled to it. So they put it available for a simple download. People who owned the software could download it and reinstall. Yay!
But, some people saw this and thought - if I can download it and it runs, it must be free. And when they were told this was wrong, that the download was for people who already owned it, then said ***** it and started spreading the rumour that it was free for all. Boo! This gets a boo, because people whose software gets audited - potentially everyone working for a business - is laid open to prosecution and unlimited fines by this lie.

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