VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
VPN firm says it didn’t know customers had lifetime subscriptions, cancels them
I find it hard to believe that it's legal to buy a company, but not it's contractual obligations. Seems line a hell of a loophole for getting out of things you don't want to do.
Yet it is.
You can go to a company and ask to buy their office building. Or the name trademark. Or staff. Or customer database. Or website. And you continue this until you've acquired literally everything the company has except the actual company itself - it's called an "asset acquisition" - so you get all the stuff, but because the original company technically still exists it's left with most of the liabilities.
Most, because some liabilities thankfully do transfer.
In this instance:
According to VPNSecure’s owners, their acquisition netted them “the tech, the brand, and the infrastructure/technology—but none of the company, contracts, payments, or obligations from the previous owners.”
...how you can claim not to have gotten the contracts, yet be in a position to cancel them sound a bit of a, well, lie.
They claim they didn't bought the contractual obligations, so to be fair they should cancel all subscription and not just the lifetime subscriptions. But obviously it's just a bullshit claim by some corpo...
Capitalism at work baby
I have stopped buying lifetime subscriptions to cloud services unless they pay off within a year or two since you can't guarantee that they'll be honoured. Any longer and you stand to lose too much money.
That’s the biggest reason I use Plex. I bought my lifetime pass over a decade ago, because the cost at the time was only slightly higher than an annual subscription. But luckily, you can run Jellyfin right alongside Plex, so it’s not an either/or situation, and I have Jellyfin ready to go in case Plex makes (more) anti-user moves.
Do you have a nebula subscription? If yes, what is your opinion of their lifetime tier?
I can't convince myself for the 300 dollar lifetime but do realize i would totally get the hours out of it.
I have a lifetime nebula. I'm probably about 2/3 of the way to it being positive value, but it's such a good service that I don't mind.
I really wish dropout had a lifetime option.
Same is true for any tech thing. Sure, you can buy a perpetual licence for something but if you’re running it on anything but an isolated device then you will at minimum need security updates or the source code to fix it yourself. Same is true for things like console games where eventually the hardware will just die and it may become too expensive to replace it. Even emulation is case-by-case since some games use obscure calls which have no adequate emulation. Software doesn’t exist in isolation. For that, you have to revert to pen, paper and some analog tech.
The provider the article is taking about is VPNSecure.
I was a VPNSecure customer with a lifetime subscription that was canceled by them recently. I was annoyed by the experience, but I also admit that I paid about $25 IIRC and that was over 5 years ago.
I used it occasionally as a backup and it was nice to have, but I definitely got my monies worth.
Yeah. I bought it at least 5 years ago as well for fairly cheap. I ended switching a few years ago because I had problems with my IP leaking, customer service wouldn't back to me, and I noticed the canary page went blank, so I assumed that something happened to them.
So, if your VPN provider is sold, why would you keep them unless you had pretty intimate knowledge of the buyer. Is that a dumb question?
