Cory Doctorow on Shrinkwrap Licenses 125
An anonymous reader writes "Web privacy advocate Cory Doctorow is on about shrinkwrap licenses, in his latest essay. They've always been onerous. Now, Doctorow says the new EULA in Vista and even the MySpace user agreement could put users at risk of being sued. He closes with: 'By reading this article, you agree, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all [everything].'"
Reading the what? (Score:5, Funny)
This shouldn't be an issue here.
Do we have fair-use rights to EULAS? (Score:4, Funny)
Shouldn't there be something you have to click through before reading a EULSA.. something that says basically "you cannot view/use/think about this EULA except under the terms define below... "
Re:Do we have fair-use rights to EULAS? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Microsoft suing users? (Score:3, Funny)
"remember you are having sex with everyone they have ever been with"
In this case its
"remember you are trusting every future owner of the ip"