The Slow Death Of Adobe

Adobe's spiraling fast, and these Terms Of Service changes are only accelerating it. While I think a lot of the response is overblown, there's still some VERY questionable stuff here that I wanted to air out. Sorry Photoshop fans :(

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Ty Ph4se0n3 for the edit!

[Fubukio]

An Adobe employee tweeting about Adobe not using our contents for AI is NOT legally binding.

[brazwen]

Can you imagine a pencil factory reserving a proprietary right to your story just because you used their pencil.

[glitchy_weasel]

"You're going to train our AI for us, and you're going to like it. Now pick the pen, dummy, and keep drawing until the neural network is satisfied."

[MattStevens]

ADOBE:
"Hey, customer! You will never own our software. In exchange for your expensive subscription, we get to peek at what you make using our suite and we get to sub-license it to our 3rd party clients" --- One of the MOST one-sided deals in history.

[fhaus]

This attitude of "Well yeah, of course they have to have access to scan for illegal content, " is straight up dystopian and awful. Stop defending it.

[exotericidymnic]

There is no way that a company is going to grant itself full legal right over your content and not exploit that to the fullest. Even presuming they have "no current plans" to do so, that won't last very long.

[selbie]

Affinity, please don't screw this up. Make what people want and you automatically win.

[ristopaasivirta]

I started using Photoshop in 1993.
Switched to Affinity Photo this Monday.

Feelsgoodman, thank you Adobe for helping me make the cut.

[espertalhao]

You forgot to mention that the old license specifically refers to content uploaded to the Creative Cloud, while the new license doesn't specify that.

Huge difference.

[SnowDaemon]

I hate being the guy that hates all big companies.
I try so hard not to be.
But they make it so hard.

[zwc]

I really hate their license model by paying every month. But what I hate most about Adobe is that you have to pay a "fee" just to stop using their services. This lead me to never sign up for it again.

[ChristopherCricketWallace]

Nope.... this is a backdoor copyright defense. They're trying to pull a fast one.

[fhaus]

"We're not going to use your content or distribute it or whatever, even though we legally can because we have a license to it, and even though we have done so in the past." - Adobe
Nope. Hard-deleted my Adobe account two days ago. Never again.

[JaguarPanda]

Why tf do they need moderation for? they don't need to know what you're doing with the software you're paying for, that's none of their business

[heinzerbrew]

it doesn't matter what random employees say. All that matters is the actual document. Companies can change direction at any point. So even if what the employee says is currently true that doesn't mean it wont change 3 months from now.

[def_not_dan]

It's almost as if you were all convinced to call your creations "content" for a reason.

[Dave]

It’s time to move on to Krita, Kdenlive, Gimp, Blender, Unreal Engine, DaVinci Resolve/Fusion, Godot, Darktable, Inkscape, Scribus, Audacity, Reaper, Natron and run it all on Linux instead.

[GordonCato]

Even if Adobe doesn’t have nefarious intentions right now, this blanket policy gives them complete discretion of how to use our images going forward. In the future, no matter what they decide to do with it, they can always claim, “But, you agreed to it."

[unknownChungus]

Basically I pay for adobe to use their software and in turn they get access to all my adobe data and then use it to train their own AI, Then sell that AI to us which has been trained on our data.
Genius!

[thetebanski]

I think the solution is relatively simple - bring back physical downloads with perpetual licences for Adobe products.