batz <batsy@vapour.net> writes:
On Fri, 26 Jul 2002, Daniel Golding wrote:
:I wouldn't bet on these guys holding off for "liability" reasons. They have :vast legions of lawyers, and a shortage of good sense, as well as a very :loose grasp of the technology.
Not that I agree with them, but given the state of the EULA's that users accept before running software, I don't see how what they intend to do as illegal.
If there were hooks in M$ code for this kind of vigilante DRM enforcement, and given that M$ can do anything it wants to your computer based on their Windows EULA's, is it still "hacking" if it executing a feature of the software which you have already agreed to the licensing conditions of?
Has the Windows EULA (or any EULA) been tested in court?
Big huge IANAL here but..
square(IANAL) for me... Peace, Petr