To: Blurblogger
"except when you sign away those rights in exchange for services, as a condition of those services....although some of those EULAs surely are illegal and unenforceable..." 
No. When you sign an agreement, you are bound by that civil contract...but violating that private agreement is *not* a criminal offense in and of itself...it's merely a contractual violation that might have repercussions (perhaps even enforced by a court), but not jail time.
8 posted on
10/15/2005 9:33:04 PM PDT by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: Southack
Agreed, civil.
Unless it be declared that password and online commerce encryption and so on are munitions...
Or that online Free Speech is 'intolerant Hate Speech.'
9 posted on
10/15/2005 9:41:20 PM PDT by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: Southack; Blurblogger
No. When you sign an agreement, you are bound by that civil contract...but violating that private agreement is *not* a criminal offense in and of itself...it's merely a contractual violation that might have repercussions (perhaps even enforced by a court), but not jail time.except contracts agreed to by minors which are unenforcable as an age of consent issue
we are talking about a game right ?
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