Re: The Creative Gouge
Re: The Creative Gouge
- Subject: Re: The Creative Gouge
- From: Marc Sitkin <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 May 2013 11:11:01 -0400
I'm more of a lurker here than a contributor, but do have a comment
about subscription cloud software.
About 10 years ago, I used an accounting service offered by Oracle that
was offered for $7.95 s month. It worked well, and I used it for a year.
After a year, I was notified that effective in 30 days, the price was
going to $79 a month, and my options were to continue or not.
I ended up having to manually (the export from Oracle did not work) set
up the accounting in Quickbooks in order to have a viable system.
A time consuming lesson learned. Buyer beware.
On 5/11/13 8:56 AM, Ben Goren wrote:
On May 11, 2013, at 4:57 AM, Martin Orpen <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm willing to bet that those who have signed up for Adobe's product have NOT read the T&C's.
Mac Performance Guide have and you are being asked to grant a whole lot more than you'd imagine:
Well, I'll give Adobe some credit.
At least they come out and say, even if buried in a hundred pages of legalese, that they explicitly reserve the right to do that which the rest of us have been cautioning they could do (and that Microsoft already did with PlaysForSure): permanently lock you out of your own content for any reason or even no reason, with no notice and no recourse. And that they can charge you whatever they want whenever they want, with your only recourse again being complete and permanent abandonment of even read-only access to everything you've ever created. Indeed, though it's not stated in the T&Cs, attempting to access your own content after the (voluntary or otherwise) expiration of your CC license might even constitute a DMCA violation.
What I hadn't realized is that they also explicitly reserve the right to use your own content for their own advertising. That one is going to lead to some interesting headlines down the road, I'm sure. Same deal with appropriation of your_name_here.adobe.com domains.
All in all, it reads much more like a mutual assured suicide pact for both Adobe and their CC customers than anything else.
Ah, well. 'Twas nice whilst it lasted.
Cheers,
b&
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