Leaving Sage

We are in the process of changing our tax and accounts software. We were using the Sage suite of programs for personal and business tax, accounts production and corporation tax. We have been told that under the terms of the licence agreement, once our licence period is up, we have no right to use the software on a "read only" basis to access our existing sage data. The helpful comment from Sage was "you should printout all the reports you need before the licence expires!!"

Has anyone else faced this problem - and is there a way around it?