I'm always suspicious of free stuff. I'll contact my friends at adobe to see how legit this is. As far as it being old. As a long time professional user of these products, I can say with certainty that either program for free would be amazing. I know people who STILL use cool edit pro. Most of the changes to audition has been in the candy category. They are great, but take them away and you still have a damn good multi-track recording and editing solution that supports VST plugins. At the very least, it gives a person who does not already have a dedicated audio editor one of the better ones on the market. Same applies to Photoshop. Most of the bread and butter features i use every day in photoshop were introduced years before CS2. If you master curves, adjustment layers and masks, everything else is just fluff (amazing fluff, but still fluff).