Helium closes accounts of users from non English countries
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
I was not able to access helium for some months. I submitted many articles there and I was afraid about losing my earnings. I’ve contacted the support team twice, but didn’t receive any replies. I asked about this on forums and other such websites, but never got a satisfying reply. Finally I’ve got an email from Helium.com concerning my access on my account (Everyone outside US must have got one). I t tells that Helium will no longer allow users from countries where English is not the primary language. Anyway users with $25 or more will get their payments. Helium says
"Because you cannot access Helium, or will soon be blocked from access, we feel it is only fair to remove your content from the site. Full rights to the work
revert to you. Because you cannot access Helium, or will soon be blocked from
access, we feel it is only fair to remove your content from the site. Full
rights to the work revert to you."
.All users can copy and paste their articles to your hard disk and publish it elsewhere after mid-July since Helium delete them from their server. Anyway users who’ve got below $25 will not get their money for their work. It’s really painful! Imagine that 1000 users had average $20 balance in their account, they’ve lost that money! So a total of $20,000 unpaid!! It’s a fact that Helium gives full copyright to it’s users after deleting their articles. But I guess Helium must have made some ad revenue from the pages we’ve published and all that money goes to them leaving users unpaid. Well, they may release new versions for some countries and we hope we’ll get access in some future.




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