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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by endisneigh on Monday December 27, 2021 @12:48AM (#29699772)
You're on a forum called "Hacker News" and you can't think of a single digital good that's not recreational?

In any case the biggest examples would be software.

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by pdonis on Monday December 27, 2021 @01:00AM (#29699859)
Are there any examples of software providers revoking access in this way?

(I personally have no experience with such things because I will never use or pay for software that is provided in this way.)

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Re:Ubisoft deleted account with hundreds of dollars’ worth o... by southerntofu on Monday December 27, 2021 @06:39AM (#29701638)
With service providers (eg. Google/Facebook) it happens every day to thousands of people, and there's little to no recourse although there was usually no financial transaction to begin with. With software you setup on your computer, i'm not aware of any instance, BUT subscription models (eg. Adobe) are really recent and not so long ago software vendors did not have the means to disable software remotely on your machine, because it was usually not (always) connected to the network, and because software that didn't need it didn't make useless network connections.

I bet in a few years we'll have plenty of documented instances.

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