Comments by "SmallSpoonBrigade" (@SmallSpoonBrigade) on "YouTubers Sponsored This Scam: Pluralsight Revokes Lifetime Licenses u0026 demand you pay again" video.

TBH, it's easier to get DRM free music now than it was back then, there isn't much reason for them to tie the prize into a subscription unless the subscription service is the one that's providing the money to fund the promotion.
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I've had some that last longer, but the issue tends to be that they don't charge enough for a lifetime license to cover providing it for the excpected useful life of the product or the owner. It's one thing for a knife to have a lifetime warranty that lasts 70 years, as a knife will commonly last that long as long as it's treated with any sort of appropriate care. However, most software products are not going to be usable in 10 years in any reasonable way. Software to load music onto a 20 year old Nomad Jukebox 3, is just not going to have anybody still using it with the frequency that would permit for updates. And, I think most people sort of get that, and at this point, there's not really anything stopping your from loading the software up on a VM and loading the content that way, as long as there isn't DRM preventing you from doing so.
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It rarely makes any sense to. Most things won't still be useful in 60 or 70 years. Normally, a life time warranty is based on the useful expected life of the product, because increasing it beyond that tends to make for a much more expensive item than what most people would care to pay for. Especially, when they may not still be interested in it after so many years, or there may be a better option. That being said, if it is longer than the expected useful life of the product, you do have a bunch of people getting rid of it before the lifetime of the owner, which does counteract that a bit.
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The problem with lifetime licenses is that they have to be pretty expensive to actually mean that. The issue is that they don't generate any more income, so it has to be set aside, and it has to be enough to pay for continued support, and that's not cheap. I've seen various businesses have to figure it out. Redchairsoftware back in the day had the best software for connecting my Nomand Jukebox 3 to my computer, but they went out of business in large part because $20 for a lifetime license was too little for the work they were putting in, and they were locked into a shrinking part of the market. DDI Software did probably the best job in terms of negotiating the reality that the model was unsustainable. Anybody on a lifetime license could continue to use it, but the support was largely limited to things that would continue to allow use, not new features. Which, in all honesty was fair enough, had he continued to try to keep the license terms the same forever with new features, it likely would have just caused the company to go bankrupt leaving the folks with those lifetime licenses without even a modern, and very well featured, piece of software to use. A lifetime software license can really only continue for a lifetime if it's massively expensive, otherwise, it's always being partially subsidized by something else and if that something else starts to dry up, a company can run into trouble rather quickly.
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Yes, IMHO, the only time they should be allowed to outright cancel a lifetime subscription is if there were violations of the terms by the customer or the company literally goes bankrupt and people they owe money to get the rights to the service. The actual issue tends to be that they under charge for the life time licenses and sell too many of them. You need a certain amount of cashflow in order to continue to provide the lifetime license, and if they didn't charge enough collectively for the life time license to be paid for by interest or investing income, then it's eventually going to lead to problems.
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@kirishima638 Yep, and a lot of people seem to believe that corporations are required to maximize short term profits. Corporations are not required to maximize profits whether short or long term, they are only required to aim to earn profits. The amount, is not required to be as large as possible, or so large that it risks endangering the continued existence of our species.
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