Dutch Case Says Email Harvesting Illegal

leomekenkamp writes "According to the /. readers there is probably something good as well as something bad in what a Dutch judge had to say in the case of E-mailgids versus NTS: NTS was convicted of illegally harvesting e-mail addresses for spam purposes from the e-mailgids site. According to the judge NTS was guilty because they did not act according to the terms of usage that are on the e-mailgids site, but were bound to them, even though they did not specifically have to click an 'I agree'; the terms of use are clearly mentioned on the main index page, and that was enough for the judge. Unfortunately all links are in Dutch..."

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Dangerous Precedent

[Alethes]

but were bound to them, even though they did not specifically have to click an 'I agree'

How many of you would like to be bound to an EULA even if you didn't click an 'I agree'?