YouTubers Sponsored This Scam: Pluralsight Revokes Lifetime Licenses & demand you pay again

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• Video: YouTubers Sponsored This Scam: Pluralsight Revokes Lifetime Licenses & demand you pay again
• Date: 2025-01-14
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AI Summary

This video discusses how companies like Pluralsight are revoking lifetime licenses and demanding customers pay again, highlighting the issue of redefining words to mean something other than their original meaning. Louis Rossmann explains that this is a form of consumer exploitation and advocates for creating a central repository of information on these issues.

Consumer Protection

Louis Rossmann discusses how companies like Sony and Pluralsight are redefining words like "lifetime" and "own" to mean something other than their original meaning, effectively taking away customers' rights. He cites an example from Sony's terms of service where it states that the word "purchase" does not imply ownership.

Revocation of Ownership

The video highlights how companies are revoking customers' lifetime licenses and demanding them to pay again for access to previously purchased content. Louis Rossmann explains that this is a form of consumer exploitation, where companies take away customers' rights without providing any clear explanation or compensation.

Consumer Action Task Force

Louis Rossmann announces the creation of the Consumer Action Task Force (CAT), a project aimed at documenting and addressing instances of consumer exploitation. He invites viewers to contribute to the project by creating articles based on his videos, which will serve as a central repository of information on these issues.

Right to Repair

The video touches on the theme of right to repair, where companies are taking away customers' ability to fix or modify their products. Louis Rossmann advocates for pushing back against bullies and promoting consumer protection through education and awareness.

Pluralsight's Practices

Louis Rossmann specifically criticizes Pluralsight's practices, including revoking lifetime licenses and demanding customers pay again for access to previously purchased content. He highlights how this is a form of consumer exploitation and advocates for creating awareness about these issues.

Call to Action

The video ends with a call to action, where Louis Rossmann invites viewers to contribute to the Consumer Action Task Force project and help create a central repository of information on consumer protection issues.

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hey everybody how's it going hope you're

having a lovely day today we're going to

be talking about a company called plural

site plural site is a place that you can

go to buy and pay for access to

different types of courses to learn all

different types of thing and today's

video is going to be sponsored by the

word lifetime own and purchase words

that used to mean something but that

don't mean anything in our modern

consumer [__] society let's go over

the word own in other ways that this has

been abused before we get into talking

about our sponsor plural side today this

is something that Sony did a while ago

so what Sony did is they said as of

December 31st 23 due to our content

licensing arrangements with content

providers you will no longer be able to

watch any of your previously purchased

Discovery content and the content will

be removed from your video library we

sincerely thank you for your continued

support thank you PlayStation store AKA

[__] you customer you have no rights to

a refund to what you bought and paid for

after we take it away from you I double

checked Sony's page at the time and what

they were doing is they actually called

it a purchase on the product page it

didn't say that this is a rental it said

purchase however if you take a look on

page 21 of the terms of service it says

the follow

use of the terms own ownership purchase

sell sold sell rent or buy does not mean

or imply any transfer of

ownership all content provided is

licensed on a non-exclusive and

revocable

basis now if we scroll down a little

more you'll see that the word purchase

has had a meaning that Sony doesn't get

to redefine from The 14th Century

purchase transitive to acquire and

exchange exchange for payment in money

or an equivalent to buy purchase the

action or an act of obtaining something

in exchange for payment in money or an

equivalent buying now let's look up

another word this is the word lifetime

from the Oxford English Dictionary

lifetime the duration of a person or

animals life the period of time over

which a person's life

extends now let's look at how plural

site has decided to Define this [__]

word this is an email that has been

received from one of my subscribers from

plural it you can reply to hello at

pluralsight mail and I highly suggest

that all of you do to tell them what you

think of this [__] practice dear

customer thank you for using a cloud

Guru product who wanted to let you know

that we are launching new packages that

now include the best of tech and Cloud

all within one platform aren't you

excited these new packages include

integrating a cloud Guru into the plural

side platform our records show that you

have an ACG course lifetime access

account as part of integrating a cloud

Guru into the plural side platform we

are terminating your lifetime course

access to the software as a service off

offering of a cloud Guru on February 1st

2025 due to the plan being retired this

move is made in accordance with the

termination for convenience Clause as

outlined in section 14.2 of our

individual terms of use please note the

following details the termination will

occur February 1st 2025 and unless my

life is terminating February 1st 2025

you [__] lied to me after that date

you will no longer have access to the

lifetime course again continuing to use

this word that like has had a [__]

definition since the 13th century 14th

century actually my bad accuracy

accuracy matters data retrieval we may

delete any personal data associated with

your personal cloud gur account after

the termination date and earn

responsible for any loss or deletion

thereafter outstanding obligations you

have no outstanding payment obligations

related to the SAS offering prior to the

termination date with this new change

we'd like to invite you to try our new

plural site packages be on the lookout

for a March promo code to try our new

complete package for free which includes

everything plural sight has to offer AKA

I know you paid for a lifetime of stuff

but we can give you this [__] $5 or

$10 gift certificate and I'm sure that

makes it okay right we apologize for the

inconvenience this termination may cause

and appreciate your understanding if you

have any questions or require further

assistence please chat with us the

plural site team this is one of the

things that I like to refer to as the

Ula ruy the enduser license agreement

ruy what they're doing here is they're

burying something within a convoluted

terms of service that is not practical

to read which says that the word

lifetime doesn't actually mean lifetime

it means some other random ass [__]

that is just not practical for you to

read I went over this in a video that I

did last July on LG and a washing

machine that collects your data this was

terms of service that was over 20 pages

long and somewhere on page 16 or 17 it

says that they get to sell your personal

data to their Affiliates that they

collect as they use your products if you

are going to use a washing machine the

concept that you are going to read a 21

page terms of service in order to use

your washing machine is ridiculous we

would not get anything done in society

if when you turn on your radio your

television you build a [__] desk that

has the ability to go up and down like

this thing that you are going to have to

read 20 to 40 pages of legal Le simply

to figure out that a word that has been

defined in the dictionary for the last

seven [__] centuries has been

redefined by a sociopathic Corporation

this is the type of [__] that should be

illegal if there was consumer protection

in the United States of America but it

is not and is most likely not going to

become illegal or be something you get

in trouble for anytime soon given that

the new FTC chair is somebody that

dissented and disagreed with the concept

of oneclick [__] cancel as if this is

an issue that is controversial at all in

America regardless of your own personal

political

views I want you to think about every

single person YouTube that's ever

suggested that you pay for plural side

that this is a good company every single

person that received money from plural

side to advertise this platform is

somebody who took money to be part of

the revocation of ownership in our

modern day society and it's one of the

reasons that you should be very [__]

careful whenever you see an

advertisement or a sponsorship on this

platform because usually they are

companies that need to do this type of

thing because they let's be real they

know that you're more likely to listen

to your favorite influencer than you are

to actually the terms of service because

admittedly I don't even read the terms

of service on this stuff because I have

a life to live I have a nonprofit to run

that does it Mi educational material I

have a nonprofit to run that does

lobbying I have a job I have a YouTube

channel I have a repair shop and every

now and then I try to have a life and

make time to pet my kitty I don't have

time to read the terms of service

involved in buying Mr Clinton's cat food

and neither do you because you have a

family you work 40 to 60 hours a week

you have to deal with sick family

members you wanted to talk to your

friends you go to school you have a life

you trust that your government to some

extent is not going to allow a company

to redefine words that have had a

definition for the past 700 [__]

years for the purposes of screwing you

and for the most part they have failed

which is why I'm going to announce today

and I'm proud to announce the consumer

action task force Wii this can be found

at wii. rossan group.com this is a

project that is still in the beta mode I

am not fully ready to announce this in

as its own dedicated video it will get

its own dedicated video later once I do

the soft opening what we want to do here

is we want to take every single one of

these instances where a company has done

this and we want to log it in an

objective way the problem that you have

nowadays with consumer protection

consumer protection really used to be

about there is this company said that

they were charging $1.99 for it but when

you show up It's $249 consumer

protection used to be this toy was

advertised for ages uh 2 through six but

we've noticed that kids that are below

the age of four sometimes try to bite

the head off of the toy and the way the

toy is constructed that head can break

off and they can choke on it consumer

protection used to mean something

different it used to it really wasn't a

consumer protection for you said that

you owns this but you actually don't own

this I was writing a page from my

website that was supposed to be one of

those just Pages for indexing all the

different services that we do and

hopefully not being on page 10 of Google

and even just while I'm writing this

page about a service that we're offering

on my website I found myself losing my

[__] over consumer protection stuff I'm

discussing this SanDisk SSD that fails

very often the extreme portable SSD and

I couldn't help it just go into a rant

in the middle of this because you had

companies that were telling people to

buy this product that literally admit

that they never used it because they

were making affiliate Revenue money off

of people clicking the link so who cares

if I'm recommending you a piece of ship

product that I literally never even used

I'm getting money from it modern

websites that deal with with consumer

reviews and consumer protection are

either not protecting you at all or

actively suggesting that you utilize

products and services that cut against

the rights of ownership that are pieces

of [__] to begin with nobody's really

looking out for the consumer when it

comes to these type of inchi ification

issues that Cory docto has been talking

about for the past 20 years changing the

terms of the sale saying that something

what did not come with forced

arbitration but then putting forced

arbitration on the side of the box that

the delivery people are instructed to

throw away prior to letting the

refrigerator into your house and then

not letting you class action sue the

company because the refrigerators die

because you some some reason having that

warning on the box actually means that

you've signed away your rights as an

American to take a company to court if

they have [__] you this whole you

can't fix what you own you don't own

what you own we can revoke your ability

to have your rights from the Bill of

Rights is in America by simply forcing a

message onto your television that says

accept or [__] you you can't use your

television anymore and consumer

protection agencies have not caught up

with these issues because frankly in my

opinion I don't even think they want to

what I'd like to do is i' like to create

a directory of all the things that I've

discussed in this Channel I want to have

one Central repository that goes over

every single one of these items and

cites them and sources them factually I

want to explain what a Ula rui is what

is changing the terms of the sale what

is revocation of the rights of ownership

what is right to repair and what is a

right to repair violation and above all

I want to go over the companies and the

products that have taken part in this in

a factual non-biased way on my YouTube

channel I am bombastic I am Meth meets

autism meets borderline personality

disorder all in one little ball but what

I want to have this little thing what I

want this website to be is something

that I could actually show a senator

something I could show somebody in

consumer protection something that is

written in a professional manner that

goes over all these issues I've talked

about in thousands of videos in

factually sites all of them I cannot do

this on my own I cannot go back through

my catalog over over 1 3,000 videos and

Catal each of them but on this website

we're going to be trying to do just that

and we're going to be trying to do that

for the entire list of videos and we're

going to be writing articles on all of

them as well as writing articles on all

of the new issues going forward because

I'm sure there will be many issues that

I have not discussed in these particular

videos as you can see this is literally

very beta right now my my logo is not

even showing up over here I have um this

is our mission statement we are going to

have moderation guidelines and I am also

going to have a bunch of information on

how to contribute what I've done here is

I have a page with a list of videos to

convert into articles these are a bunch

of my videos it's a list of all my

videos needs Weeki article yes or no

some of these videos have absolutely

nothing to do with consumer protection

and some of them have to do with

consumer protection for the ones that

have to do with consumer protection we

have a link to the video and if there is

no Weeki URL that means that no article

has been created in the weeky yet at

which point I would love and be humbled

and honored if you'd be open to

contributing to making an article this

is open to Anonymous users you do not

need to register on this Weeki in order

to edit it or to create an article if

you do register and you have posted

enough posts without getting deleted you

will no longer have to deal with the

capture and if you are a regular and I

see that you're making good articles

I'll happily disable all the capture

other stuff so that it's easier for you

to be able to create articles I did have

to implement H capture just because of

the sheer amount of spam here my goal is

to have this list of all of my old

videos created in in made into articles

that are well factually cited and

sourced going over every single instance

of a company taking part in this new

consumer protection type of violation

this is not supposed to be yel if your

local plumber has screwed you over that

is not for this Wei if you said I sent

my phone to this company and they said

the screen was cracked and it wasn't

cracked when I sent it like that's for

Yelp that's for your local Department of

Consumer Affairs that is not a

widespread systemic issue I have a very

very clear set of guidelines over here

on what should and should not be

included in this Wei and there is

content that I've discussed on my

Channel or I've discussed a particular

company or a concern that would not be

included in this Weeki for instance when

Eugene the contractor [__] me over

that's not going in this Wei because

that's like a contractor [__] me over

like that that's between me and yel

that's between me and him that's between

me and my local consumer protection

authority what goes in here is when when

when Intel tries to hide and put under

the rug the fact that millions and

millions of their processors are

oxidizing and dying what goes in here is

when Roku sends out a message to

hundreds of thousands of their users

saying you either accept the terms of

forced arbitration or you can't switch

the HDMI Source on your [__]

television we have moderator guidelines

that go over in very clear words what

does and does not belong in this Wei and

we have a group of moderators that are

dedicated to ensuring that this does not

become a [__] show I want to create the

consumer reports the JD Power of the

21st century that goes over the real

issues that consumers face today I

bought a security camera it says that I

can get alerts on my phone but when they

released the new security camera they

disabled my ability to get alerts on my

phone with the old security camera

because I have to connect to their

server that they turned off and I can't

connect it to mine but it didn't say

that in the box like this is modern

consumer protection and I'm hoping that

by creating awareness for these issues

and putting them in one central place

that makes it easy for consumers to read

to see actual evidence to see the

sources to see the photos and everything

that has to do with it that'll make it

easier for consumers to make purchasing

decisions and hopefully take the first

step forward towards creating societal

change the first step forward towards

creating societal change is getting

people informed as to the issues in a

manner that is easily digestible

pointing people to one YouTube channel

with 3,000 videos where an abrace A

person who seems like he's overdosed on

cocaine yells at his camera every single

day is just like it only gets you so far

and I appreciate that I got 2 million

people watching I appreciate that 50,000

people tune in for every one of these

videos thank you very much God bless you

all it's not enough I want to have this

project grow into something where people

are making purchasing decisions based on

it and dare I say it maybe someday

companies are making decisions on on how

they treat their customers based on it

because they're like we do not want to

show up in the consumer protection Wei

we don't want to be here so what do we

have to do to change it I want this to

be a place where legal assistance to

politicians go and they say okay how are

we going to word this consumer

protection legislation how are we going

to create this rule okay we need to make

sure a company can can't do this I want

this to be a source for that and there's

no way that this can become a source for

that without the help of all of you I'm

going to link to a Discord down below

where you guys can start talking and

working on things together I've got a

lot of moderators there and I've got a

lot of people that I trust that are

helping me with this project I'm going

to be overlooking this project quite a

bit this is admittedly this to be clear

this is the soft announcement this is a

beta I'm by the end of the week I'm

going to be prepared to make a full

proper announcement with its own proper

video and by then I I really do hope to

be Off to the Races and get all these

old videos from discuss the stuff put in

there with facts citations sources

evidence whether it's General Motors

selling all your data to insurance

companies and not telling you or just

the stuff that Arlo did with their

cameras or plural side doing this I

value the concept of ownership I want to

live in a world we get to say that we

own what we own we own our privacy we

own our products we own what we bought

and paid for and we have the ability to

fix what we bought and paid for and all

of that is being taken away everything

that I've talked about on this channel

for the past 15 years right to repair

stuff Apple stuff you know real estate

stuff business stuff it's really all

coalesced around this one central theme

of pushing back against bullies and this

I think is the best way that I could

utilize the audience that I've

cultivated over the past 15 years to

push back against bullies in a in a

collaborative way I appreciate that you

have all been here for my 15-year

journey of being a brand unsafe

influencer and I would like to take that

brand unsafe influencer to The Next Step

are you going to help me that's it for

today and as always I hope you learned

something sponsored by plural side and

the word Lifetime and the word own which

[__] means something don't take it

away from people see you in the next

video bye now if you try to take it away

from people the consumer action task

force is coming for you I know that the

image is not showing up but can you

guess what consumer action task force is

a is an acronym for can you guess

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