The software company Adobe is to be charged by the US Justice Department for abusing customer-protection regulations.
Adobe’s abusive acts include forcing customers to pay for yearly subscriptions to their products and preventing customers from stop using and paying for their services. As a publisher myself, I have a long experience in fighting Adobe’s abusive behaviour, and just recently I was forced to pay for an annual subscription to InDesign after I paid for it to use it just once. When I canceled my subscription, which you are allowed to do before a time-window expires, I was contacted by their representative who told me that they would have to keep my subscription until a couple more months or so.
Just recently, Adobe was forced to retract from their abusive user agreement that forced clients of its software and cloud services to hand over copyright and commercial use of rights of all of their work stored on their cloud. Adobe defended itself by saying that this is the same kind of user agreement signed by clients with social media platforms such as Facebook, but Adobe’s software is used by artists to create their unique creations and storing their work on a cloud, privately, is a method widely used by artists and publishers to secure their work.
Adobe’s software is dominant in the world of publishing with its programmes such as PhotoShop and InDesign widely used by many publishers.
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