On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:12:24 +0100, Sebastian G. wrote:
> Since you had the chance to read the documentation (which mentions the
> monitoring) before installing the software, you could have just returned it.
> If you informed yourself earlier, you wouldn't even have bought this software.

My dear Sebastian,

You are either joking, or unrealistic, or you really are a fastidious
personality who painstakingly reads every word of the documentation BEFORE
buying the software. I'm not.

As such, I consider myself close to "normal" that I don't read the
documentation until/unless I get into trouble and then only to solve the
problem. Certainly never before I purchase the software. Even so, I don't
recall ever seeing in the "documentation" that the software must phone home
and that there is nothing we can do about it.

Even if the "documentation" did say that, Adobe would never answer the
question posed here which would block their monitoring of my useage of
their software for their marketing purposes. So, this question would
*still* need to be asked. Why does Adobe phone home every day anyway?

What business benefit do they get out of this monitoring activity?
Is that in the documentation?

Can you point me to then location that discusses this "feature" in the
documentation and why Adobe monitors our activity?