>My only question is, what took the FTC this long? Why didn't they do this years ago? In general, the government and its agencies move very slowly. Compared to

>My only question is, what took the FTC this long? Why didn't they do this years ago? In general, the government and its agencies move very slowly. Compared to the FTC, Adobe's move over to subscription is quite recent. Adobe's only been doing subscriptions for what, maybe 10 years? And these problems are even more recent than that. It also takes time to build up a case, even if they had looked into it immediately. Get a nice long paper trail, lots of documentation, consumer complaints, etc. That can take years. As they get more familiar with the modern world of software, I think cases like this will take less and less time to deal with.