Fighting Back Against EULAs

An anonymous reader writes: "Fed up with increasingly obnoxious click-through "agreements" embedded in the retail software I buy, I've posted a very simple script to remove them before clicking "I agree". Without the EULA, I am free to use my software within the bounds of copyright law. Courts have been very inconsistent on the enforceability of EULAs, and I hope this will strengthen consumers' side of the battle. The script is a symbolic gesture as much as anything else, and I want to get people thinking about how ridiculous it is that software companies try to force these one-sided contracts on you after you have paid for something. Also worth a look is cexx.org's Software Vendor License Agreement, which reverses the typical EULA and puts the burden back on the software manufacturer where it belongs."

Comments

Actually, I bought a CD and a box

[marcus]

You know, a plastic disk with spiral dot patterns on them. In addition to that I usually get a bunch of paper, dried ink, and cardboard. That's all trash. What I want is the CD. I like to look at them. I like to shine lights on them and look at and sometimes record the fancy reflections. I've even got a gizmo that takes the reflections and converts them to electricity which is used to move magnets. Sometimes it makes some really nice sounds. Other times I use those reflection patterns to make all kinds images on my screen.

I've also used them as coasters.

When I was in college, we used them as pee targets for freshmen. If you made it through the hole, you came out clean. If you missed, it spattered back.

After I'm tired of all that, I take them to the gun range and use them as targets.

What I have not done is copy either the dot patterns or the fancy ink patterns on the trash that comes with it and distribute the copies.