8 Oct
2004
8 Oct
'04
4:53 p.m.
The general consensus seems to be that companies that choose to obey the law will simply disclose everything their software does in many, many paragraphs of legal language that few people will actually read. This will allow them to claim they have consent for whatever it is that they do. On the bright side, it will at least be possible for those who are sufficiently curious and diligent to determine what the software is doing by picking through the legal language. I've heard that Gator's license is 20% longer than the constitution. DS