Bop on over to the Inquirer; seems that some code monkey's have already defeated the 'anti piracy' and the 'we -will- force you to register with US' aspects of the yet-to-be-offically-released SP-1 for XP. This illustrates the single most important point that -any- business seems incapable of grasping: The net is a different world, and those who dwell there are pretty decent people. And they have little to no compunction about striking back at =anyone= who makes an attempt to limit their freedom of choice. Or tars them with the wide brush of thievery without a shred of evidence (how many times has the RIAA site been hacked since they said they were going to use -their- hackers to go digging in people's systems if they can get a certain law passed under the radar? Those idiots can't seem to understand that their $$$ are nothing to netizens...and all too many of us could and would throw up an electonic barrier to make the Great Wall of China look like the waste of bricks it ultimately was. If we were pushed far enough.) There probably is going to be a period of this nonsense. Then the real netizens, not the fluffy-bunny crowd, are going to get tired of it and push back. Most EULA's won't stand up in a court of law, as nigh onto all of them tread on fair usage and/or actual constitutional issues. It's just that no one has had the cash or the mad-on to push it. Yet. But it will happen.