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It's always a question as to whether the changes in the Terms do more than what the company says they'll do with them. After all, we have discovered some very interesting things in terms of what the Terms actually do let companies do with our data and our materials, and when we complain, they can always say "well, you agreed to the Terms when you installed/started using the software." Never mind that there are no meaningful ways of saying "I will use your software, but I will do so according to my own Terms of Service and you will have to accept that" or "I do not agree with your Terms of Service, and I would like to negotiate with you about which clauses are acceptable to me and which ones are not." Since there are no meaningful choices in the matter, I would like some court to rule that all such force-upon-the-user contracts are void. Because while Adobe says they are only doing these things now, they won't have to change their Terms again if they decide to expand uses in the future, and there will be no reasonable recourse, apart from stopping using the software and demanding that anything that's yours that's still in Adobe's possession is deleted immediately and securely.