Lifetime license removal

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Lifetime licenses are granted for software that many consumers and businesses rely upon daily for the simple fact that it is more affordable in the long-term for these products and services. As subscription-based products have become more favorable for investors among various companies, many are forced outside of the licenses that they expected were theirs to own as-is following the terminology of "lifetime." The removal of these licenses combat the consumers' right to own the products that they paid for.

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Examples

Company Name	Product(s)	Year of Removal	Summary	Relevant Article(s)
Adobe	Photoshop, Acrobat, Firefly, Premiere, Creative Cloud, etc	2020-Now	Adobe has been slowly revoking licenses across its product library that eliminate the ownership of the products that consumers and businesses have paid for.	Adobe Lightroom: Perpetual to Subscription Transition
InfiniteQuant	VPNSecure	2025	After the company InfiniteQuant purchased VPNSecure, the company opted to revoke lifetime licenses that users had paid for	VPNSecure.me terminated a "lifetime" license
Pluralsight	Pluralsight	2023-2025	TBA	Pluralsight revokes lifetime licenses
Tansee	Tansee	2020	TBA	Tansee License Changed from Lifetime to 3 Years After Purchase
Malwarebytes	Malwarebytes	2014	TBA	TBA

See Also

• Storefront shutdown
• Right to Own