Corporate whoring may be fashionable but it's getting rather tiresome.
Most of what we're seeing is a reaction against change and experimentation. Welcome, in other words, to Karl Rove's internet, where he can play but you can't. It's a vast overreation, based more on orthodoxy than logic. Corporate whoring may be fashionable but it's getting rather tiresome. If they don't do it this way, they'll do it another way, probably by a general rate increase.
They'll continue to bill you for months, and generally you'll have to block payment after they go to your CC. Press, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and thousands of others. Let us know your position in the comment box, below.