Modifying the binary is not same as copying .
Also given thay Adobe has failed to their side of the agreement, there is some legal standing.
Ofcourse it has to be tested in court, unlikely Adobe will even sue if they knew. I don't think they care one way or another. And the customer using cs2 still is unlikely to sue as it's not going to be a large enterprise.
This is just laziness from Adobe , older servers take effort to maintain. They could be using keys that have expired to be signing the auth request for example.
You own a CPU. Because you own that CPU, you get to play gatekeeper and decide which parts of that bytearray go to your CPU and which ones don't. That's not for Adobe to decide.
The bytearray they send you is just a suggestion of what to run on your CPU. They provided you a suggestion in return for a payment.
You don't have to run all of that suggestion. You can selectively run parts of it.
Ofcourse it has to be tested in court, unlikely Adobe will even sue if they knew. I don't think they care one way or another. And the customer using cs2 still is unlikely to sue as it's not going to be a large enterprise.
This is just laziness from Adobe , older servers take effort to maintain. They could be using keys that have expired to be signing the auth request for example.