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To: antiRepublicrat

I don’t know... it seems that the average computer user is not going to run into problems with the EULAs (End-User License Agreements)

Software license agreement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_license_agreement

I would be more inclined to make it so that the DMCA wasn’t as far-reaching as it is....

DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

It’s the DMCA that is the real problem and is way too far-reaching and restrictive (for the average consumer, that is...).


9 posted on 08/25/2009 9:02:16 PM PDT by Star Traveler (The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is a Zionist and Jerusalem is the apple of His eye.)
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To: Star Traveler

The whole purpose of most EULAs is to take away the rights you normally would have under copyright. They even go further than you might think. I consider many of these to be abuse of copyright and unenforceable. Copyright was meant to foster creation of works, not this.

If you wonder whether a EULA goes too far, just think about it being applied to a book you bought. Would you have to get prior approval from the publisher for a review? You can’t loan a book to a friend, sell it, or trade it in at a used book store for credit? The book is tied to your home, and you lose the right to that book if you move? Do they have a mechanism to remotely destroy your book, and make it against the EULA to protect your book from said destruction? Can they force you to destroy your book if you violated any of these terms?

If any of that doesn’t sound right to you, then you have a problem with most EULAs.


10 posted on 08/25/2009 10:01:16 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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