> They don't have to convince any judge or jury because the law says so.
> It doesn't matter *how* you get the software, if you don't have a legal
> license, you can't legally use it.

The point is that the user thinks they do have the required license. If 
any user wants to fight Adobe regarding this it will end up in court.

> It doesn't matter what they think. Ignorance of the law is no excuse.

They're not ignorant of the law (I don't think anyone would claim they 
didn't know about laws regarding software), they're ignorant of what 
license the software is released under. As it's not made clear, there is 
no option to buy a license and it's old software distributed in a manner 
that is usually used for software with a free license, then it seems 
like you'd have a reasonable case in court to claim you were ignorant 
regarding the license. It's up to the judge to then decide whether the 
efforts required to check the license (maybe reading the EULA would 
suffice, IDK) are reasonable to expect the user to have done. But IIRC 
judges have previously ruled against companies hiding things deep in the 
EULA, so I wouldn't assume Adobe would win.

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