It's extortion out and out and racketeering also as it's a forced sale. Health insurance is the same scheme, forced to buy ins to get a 10k procedure price or be threatened with a 100K bill instead. Every instance of this should be prosecuted under 15 USC but the govt. does not prosecute these rampant felonies across all entities. In other words it's easier to extort money from people than to innovate and sell a great idea. A whole lot of crooks need sent to jail for USC15 felonies.

Imagine being a creative content creator or photographer using Adobe products. Then one day you decide to stop paying and all your past work becomes locked out and you have no access to it anymore. You are essentially robbed of all your previous creative works. This accounting software is the same thing. As long as people put up with it and refuse to demand enforcement of 15USC it will continue and get even worse.

Still running Quicken 2002 on several XP machine with no wired or wireless internet connections. Have access to all my previous years data although I may run into issues with year end printouts as no newer printers support those older machines. Can export it into excel files but they are not as nice as the Quicken generated reports.

Same scam ran with MS Office products too.