{"id":15886,"date":"2009-06-19T14:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2009\/06\/why-its-worth-registering-your-software.html"},"modified":"2009-06-19T14:12:23","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T14:12:23","slug":"why_its_worth_registering_your_software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/19\/why_its_worth_registering_your_software\/","title":{"rendered":"Why it&#039;s worth registering your software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Short story: It&#8217;s a free information backup that can help us help you later.<br \/>\nPeople periodically send me all kinds of customer service-oriented questions (inquiries about pricing, upgrade eligibility, lost discs, etc.).  I do my best to get these things sorted out, and often the customer service folks need to ask for proof of ownership.  Even if you&#8217;re twice as organized as I am, digging up a receipt or credit card record from several years back can be difficult, if not impossible.<br \/>\nThings tend to go <i>much<\/i> more smoothly if you&#8217;ve first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/support\/registration.html\">registered your software with Adobe<\/a>, as you serial number &amp; other info are then on file.  You&#8217;re ensuring that your proof of ownership doesn&#8217;t get lost.<br \/>\nOh, and you tend to get some nice freebies in the bargain.  (Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobeereg.com\/lp\/reg_benefits\/?\/products\/ACS4\/en_US\">what&#8217;s available when registering CS4<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short story: It&#8217;s a free information backup that can help us help you later. People periodically send me all kinds of customer service-oriented questions (inquiries about pricing, upgrade eligibility, lost discs, etc.). I do my best to get these things sorted out, and often the customer service folks need to ask for proof of ownership. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}