The sample videos show comprehensive tutorials. I think they deserve a more comprehensive look before jumping to a quick conclusion.
You and I may be computer literate, so to us it may seem like worthless crap to us, but the videos aren't too shabby quality. It's probably why it's drawing so many scam criticisms because to us it doesn't seem worth $300.
The problem: they don't openly disclose that it costs $300 - their customers value the cost at free or ~$5 for S&H, while the charged cost is buried in fine-print on another page.
If it was explicitly offered at $300 and people still bought it nobody would be calling it a scam even if it was viewed as "worthless crap to us."
I'm only saying this merits a little more investigation than just a quick glance by Arrington and everyone else being yes-men.
I hate scammers, but it's not a fine line between scamming, and sly marketing.
Type in your email and a password. While you'll see the monthly price clearly listed, you'll also see Free Trial Offer Details in really tiny text on the left. If you click on it, it tells you how you will be charged unless you cancel. Those sly bastards
This is a similar model to the video professor. On the video professor page it does tell you, after you click to get the free trial, that you can avoid a full charge by canceling. It also says this on their home page. In fact, it's on the right side of the page on every page of the order process up until the credit card entry (which is where I stopped).
Any decently intelligent individual would know there will be some charge at the end of the trial. It is quite clearly stated as a trial. And because it is a trial, it doesn't matter what the full price is, just as long as you know you can cancel. Which you can, by the way.
So sure, it's very likely that a legitimate business would not be so tricky. So the odds are, maybe they do have bad intentions.
I don't have enough evidence, and Arrington didn't seem to have tried to procure much either.
So there is doubt.