Subscription-based models are a plague, but at least Jetbrains products eventually offer a perpetual fallback license for if you stop paying.
It’s absurd that Adobe can just take tools you might depend on away after years of paying the subscription.
His friends started responding to his emails for a span covering years? That’s a bit strange, I don’t understand why or how they’d do that unless asked to and given the credentials.
If those friends are included in the people who haven’t heard from him in years, I’d consider that behaviour a little suspicious.
If you can’t find any evidence of activity, or anybody to vouch for him - I’d consider filing a report.
They know that suppressing disability benefits will cause excess death, they just don’t care.
It doesn’t matter to them if their decisions drive vulnerable people to destitution or even suicide, so long as they can feed a few extra bodies into the gears to pump their numbers.
People with mental health conditions and other disabilities need support that the health and social care services can’t provide because the government have spent over a decade cutting them.
Instead we get thinly veiled eugenics, a cynical revival of social Darwinism.
It’s not as though the existence and mechanisms of piracy are a coveted secret. There’s a decent chance that they’ll learn about and attempt it independently, and the method they learn about online might expose them to greater risk than if they did it with more consideration.
On that basis, I think that knowledge transfer is at worst harm reduction. If it’s immoral, which I don’t believe it is, then at the very least your intervention could prevent them from being preyed upon by some copyright troll company when they do it despite your silence or protestations.
Good to see Khoshekh on this site!