R_Hatch opened this issue on Nov 20, 2005 ยท 19 posts
layingback posted Tue, 22 November 2005 at 9:26 AM
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EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) has filed suit on Sony BMG for XCP *and* MediaMax (the latter of which is on 20M CD's - Sony BMG's numbers). Also Texas Attorney General has filed suit for XCP. Details at the link provided. Per the EFF complaint, MediaMax is almost as nasty as XCP, and the uninstaller for MediaMax has same security concerns as the earlier one for XCP (see my earlier posting above). Pamela Jones - at the link provided - has a great anology for today's EULAs: (from www.grolaw.com 11/22/05) Perhaps you saw the joke on IRQ about throwing a brick through a window with a EULA attached: I will write on a huge cement block "BY ACCEPTING THIS BRICK THROUGH YOUR WINDOW, YOU ACCEPT IT AS IS AND AGREE TO MY DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, AS WELL AS DISCLAIMERS OF ALL LIABILITY, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL, THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE INSTALLATION OF THIS BRICK INTO YOUR BUILDING." Perfect!!! :-)