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Comment by bluGill | Hacker News Reader

It may even in the us, but a lawyer will cost you more than paying the fee. Though there is a class action in the us if enough people cancle - the lawyers get the cancle fee and you get $.25

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Adobe's fine print contains a Binding Arbitration Agreement and Class Action Waiver, which would prevent class action in the U.S. if you didn't follow the instructions to opt out.

Similar clauses, some without opt-outs, have proliferated widely throughout the tech industry. Most notably, Windows added them to most of their products shortly before the release of Windows 8. Interestingly, GitHub does not have these clauses yet.

In some countries, the loser pays for both lawyers (and there are rules about how much money that can be).

you can almost certainly do a chargeback on your credit card, then they have to come after you, and their legal costs will hugely outweigh any payment they are seeking

Check your credit card terms of service carefully. Cards do have consumer protection, but generally it isn't about this type of situation. If you owe the fee then it is fraud to do a chargeback and you can get into legal trouble (though odds are as the other poster said: they will just send you to collections and it will hit your credit report).

I agree that this type of change to contract terms is not acceptable, but unfortunately you need a lawyer to fight it.

No, they’ll just sell the debt for peanuts to a collection agency, who will ruin your credit.

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