[50352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petr Swedock)
Fri Jul 26 13:39:12 2002
To: batz <batsy@vapour.net>
Cc: Daniel Golding <dgolding@yahoo.com>,
Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
"Rowland, Alan D" <alan_r1@corp.earthlink.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Petr Swedock <petr@blade-runner.mit.edu>
Date: 26 Jul 2002 13:35:14 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207261303150.56354-100000@vapour.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
