In article , Mayayana
wrote:

That's why I concluded that the whole thing was a marketing
ploy gone bad.

it wasn't.

I wouldn't expect Adobe to care about old
customers who'd lost their keys.

except that by releasing a key, they were supporting old customers who
might have needed to reinstall it at some point.

They can call up in that
case to get a new key, if they'd registered.

except that the activation servers were offline, so no.