Reports state Adobe agreed to pay $75 million to settle a U.S. DOJ lawsuit alleging the company made Creative Cloud subscriptions hard to cancel and hid termination/cancellation fees; documents reference subscriptions, canceling, CS6, Photoshop, and matching free services.
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Adobe agrees to pay settlement for making its subscriptions hard to cancel Adobe has agreed to pay $75 million to the US government to settle its lawsuit over the company's alleged harmful approach to subscriptions. The lawsuit began in 2024, when the U.S. Department of Justice and the Federal…
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Adobe settles DOJ cancellation fee lawsuit, will pay $75 million penalty Canceling a software subscription is supposed to be easy—that's what US law dictates. Adobe, however, has played fast and loose with its Creative Cloud subscriptions in the past. The company was sued by the Department of Justice in 2024 due to its practice of hiding hefty termination fees when customers signed up. The case has now been settled, with Adobe agreeing to a $75 million fine and matching free services to users of its products. Turning software into a monthly subscription is all the rage these days, but Adobe was way ahead of the curve. The company began offering its suite of editing tools, like Photoshop and Illustrator, as a monthly subscription back in 2013, and most of its customers migrated to the new system. It was easy for Adobe to get away with that shift because CS6, the last perpetual license offered for its editing tools, started at $700 and went up to more than $2,600 for all apps. By contrast, paying between $10 and $70 per month seems like a good deal, and it might be in the short term. Although anyone who has been paying monthly since the change has spent thousands of dollars on Adobe software. And when people noticed that and decided they wanted to cancel, many of them were frustrated with the outcome. [Read full article][1] [Comments][2] [1]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/adobe-settles-doj-cancellation-fee-lawsuit-will-pay-75-million-penalty/ [2]: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/adobe-settles-doj-cancellation-fee-lawsuit-will-pay-75-million-penalty/#comments https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/03/adobe-settles-doj-cancellation-fee-lawsuit-will-pay-75-million-penalty/
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