@mattwilcox @sarajw @danhon There was this fellow going by "Raybiez" who used to post patches/cracks for all the Macromedia trial versions back then. And the software didn't mind if you just copied the folder to another computer, would recreate all the necessary (Windows) registry entries the first time you ran it.
It really was magical. You could tell that the software companies (except Microsoft) actually listened to what users wanted between releases.