Unless I'm interpreting their FAQ incorrectly Adobe allows the use of educational and teacher licenses for commercial purposes. Only caveats are it has to be installed on your private owned computer and it the license can't be resold. http://helpx.adobe.com/x-productkb/policy-pricing/education-faq.html
Question: How do you guys go about purchasing commercial-ready licenses for remote freelance work? Do the new Autodesk and Adobe Cloud services work well for this? Unless people just use cracked / educational licenses / etc. to do such work?
No. Not only does this put yourself at risk but it also puts your client at risk as well, which could result in serious problems for yourself. Educational licenses are non commercial licenses, meaning you can't charge for the work you create on them. If you can't afford to purchase the software consider using open source…