Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Seems like the new owners got screwed over by the previous owners who “forgot” to tell them that they had a bunch of highly unprofitable users locked in without ever paying them a cent again.
Shitty situation for those “lifetime” subscription owners, but if the company shuts down because the new owners were sold a lie, they don’t have a VPN to use either.
x00z@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That has nothing to do with the end user. In such cases they should sue the original owners.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
The new owners mentioned that in the article. They said it would cost more to do than it would to just shut the business down.
What good outcome do you think the lifetime license owners would get in that situation?
x00z@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have no idea, but the end users should not get fucked because the new owners didn’t know what they were buying. In many countries it is illegal for the old owners to not let the new owners know of such things.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Without being able to offer any idea of a solution though, saying that means nothing. The company either gets shut down and those users get fucked and have no VPN, or the company stays alive and the users have no VPN but have the option to get one again.
The point is there’s no real way the lifetime licenses get honoured.
lemming741@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I call bullshit. I bet they knew, but saw it as an opportunity for profit and this is all PR spin.