Specifically, which part do you find so outrageous and odious?
Mark,
I did not state "and odious." You did that.
I usually don't respond to this kind of question but I have some free time this morning, so here is a partial listing. The most outrageous of their terms is that Adobe grants itself permission to use your content, without notice or compensation. But read on. Comments come from the source quoted. I encourage all to actually read the terms.
The following content is from:
http://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2013/20130508_1a-Adobe-legal-agreement.htmlFirst: The renter must agree in advance to any changes Adobe makes. You may not read the changes in advance.
3.3 Adobe may require you to provide consent to the updated Terms before further use of the Services is permitted. Otherwise, your continual use of any Service constitutes your acceptance of the changes.
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Second: Adobe has no obligation to provide services or materials, even after it's paid for. They can charge you for nothing, and they have no liability if they decide to discontinue software without notice.
6.5 Adobe may modify or discontinue, temporarily or permanently, the Services or Materials, or any portion thereof, with or without notice. You agree that Adobe shall not be liable to you or anyone else if we do so.
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Third: Adobe can make arbitrary demands for arbitrary information at any time for any reason of their choice. All they have to do is add it under "Account Information."
Adobe may require that you change your Account Information or certain parts of your Account Information at any time for any reason.
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Fourth: Anything Adobe arbitrarily determines to be objectionable, “otherwise objectionable” is required to be available to them.
a) Make Available any Material that is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, tortious, defamatory, libelous, vulgar, obscene, child-pornographic, lewd, profane, invasive of another’s privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise objectionable;
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Fifth: termination or content removal for “no reason” or “any reason”.
Adobe can shut off your account and shut you out, and you’ll have no way to open those files you created.
15.1 Adobe, in its sole discretion, may (but has no obligation to) monitor or review the Services and Materials at any time. Without limiting the foregoing, Adobe shall have the right, in its sole discretion, to remove any of Your Content for any reason (or no reason), including if it violates the Terms or any Law.
19.3 Termination or Suspension of Services. Adobe may also terminate or suspend all or a portion of your account and/or access to the Services for any reason (subject to Additional Terms for certain Services). Except as may be set forth in any Additional Terms applicable to a particular Service, termination of your account may include: (a) removal of access to all offerings within the Services; (b) deletion of Your Content and Account Information, including your personal information, log-in ID and password, and all related information, files, and Materials associated with or inside your account (or any part thereof); and (c) barring of further use of the Services.
19.4 You agree that all terminations for cause shall be made in Adobe’s sole discretion and that Adobe shall not be liable to you or any third party for any termination of your account (and accompanying deletion of your Account Information), or access to the Services and Materials, including Your Content.
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Sixth: No choice and no notice on software updates.
11.4 The Software may automatically download and install updates from Adobe. These updates are designed to improve, enhance and further develop the Services and may take the form of bug fixes, enhanced functions, new Software modules, and completely new versions. You agree to receive such updates (and permit Adobe to deliver these to you with or without your knowledge) as part of your use of the Services.
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Seventh: You give Adobe access to your content for their advertising and you get nothing for it.
17. Advertising and Your Content.
You agree that Adobe may display advertisements adjacent to Your Content, and you agree that you are not entitled to any compensation.
The manner, mode, and extent of advertising or other revenue generating models pursued by Adobe on or in conjunction with the Services and/or Your Content are subject to change without specific notice to you.
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Anyone who considers the kind of terms noted above, as example, to be acceptable practice, would benefit themselves by studying what is commonly referred to as Stockholm syndrome.