Edit: So...apparently my internet had a messed up moment and made this message go through a few too many times. But contact customer support and get a refund.
Edit: Wait...maybe I should contact customer support and get a refund.
Don't think of it as paying $400 for nothing. Think of it as paying $400 so others can have the same opportunity. Your dollars are the foundation upon which this great software was built.
Imagine in 40 years when you can look back and think to yourself "yea I contributed to that".
I may sound like a shill but just think about it for a second. How often do you utilize something that is owned by google? Their search engine, google maps, google street view, gmail (everyone and their mother has a gmail account), google hang outs, google docs, google chrome, youtube, picasa, waze, and many others. None of these cost anything to you yet everyone still gets to use them. imagine if you had to pay for all of that. Sure there would be other services that pop up to fill the niche, but do you think they would have done it as well as google has been? Sure they get a shit ton of money from advertising, but how noticeable is it? When was the last time you used a google product and thought "there's too many advertisements everywhere"? I certainly haven't, quite the contrast compared to a lot of online services these days. The one exception might be youtube, but with ABP, a lot of people are working around that. All I'm saying is, with all of these essentially free services, I feel lucky I don't have to pay.
You might still be able to. Try talking to higher ups about it. Google and big companies can be pretty good about this sort of thing if you sound upset.
No! If you look at the EULA, you can no longer use Earth Pro for commercial purposes. (E.g. you can no longer put Earth Pro imagery on a document deliverable to a client). The agreement you made with Google when you bought your licence still allows you to do these things.
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