Rogue Wolf
Is Kind Of A Big Deal In Yemen
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Troy, NY
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| And if the party of the first part....
Really, is anyone surprised? Companies pack these EULAs so full of legalese and double-speak that we could read all the way through one that consigns our first-born children to ten years of servitude and not actually realize what we're agreeing to. And now they're just making them so long that most sane human beings simply don't have the patience to read completely through them.
I still say there needs to be a law stating that every program included in a bundle must have it's own EULA (preferably 500 words or less) and agreement box. Of course, then companies would just call the spyware "components".
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Thaler
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Encino, CA
| said by Rogue Wolf  :Of course, then companies would just call the spyware "components". I think they do that already. |
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dave
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said by Rogue Wolf :I still say there needs to be a law stating that every program included in a bundle must have it's own EULA (preferably 500 words or less) and agreement box. Great, there are about 1500 programs in Windows XP, so that's 1500 EULAs to agree to, and 750,000 words to read. |
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Nerdtalker
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said by Rogue Wolf :Really, is anyone surprised? No, it's been common knowledge for a while now that nearly all of the "popular" P2P programs bundle crapware.
This report, however, is a very nice run-down on exactly what is installed and how they can legally install it.
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Thaler
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| said by Nerdtalker :This report, however, is a very nice run-down on exactly what is installed and how they can legally install it. Blah, how useful is that knowledge? Let me know when someone finds a legal loophole that allows me to put my foot up spy/crapware vendor's asses w/o legal repercussions, then we'll talk.  |
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Rogue Wolf
Is Kind Of A Big Deal In Yemen
join:2003-08-12
Troy, NY
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| reply to dave
said by dave :said by Rogue Wolf :I still say there needs to be a law stating that every program included in a bundle must have it's own EULA (preferably 500 words or less) and agreement box. Great, there are about 1500 programs in Windows XP, so that's 1500 EULAs to agree to, and 750,000 words to read. I really meant this as an entirely separate application (not written by the designers of the main program), but I see your point. Might have to hammer out a different definition.
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