After overreaching TOS angers users, cloud provider Vultr backs off

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After backlash, the cloud provider Vultr has updated its terms to remove a clause that a Reddit user feared required customers to “fork over rights” to “anything” hosted on its platform.

The alarming clause seemed to grant Vultr a “non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable” license to “use and commercialize” any user content uploaded, posted, hosted, or stored on Vultr “in any way that Vultr deems appropriate, without any further consent” or compensation to users or third parties.

Here’s the full clause that was removed: