Re: Draft of Rep. Berman's bill authorizes anti-P2P hacking

[Petr Swedock <petr () blade-runner mit 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