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Intuit Sued Over Product Activation
An anonymous reader writes "PCWorld is reporting: [Scott] Leviant's firm of Stanbury & Fishelman has filed a class-action lawsuit against Intuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on behalf of all U.S. purchasers of TurboTax software for the 2002 tax year. The suit alleges that Intuit engaged in unfair and deceptive business practices by failing to fully disclose the mechanisms and consequences of its product-activation technology before consumers pay for the software."
Intuit knew that hundreds of people would buy their software, then turn around and give it to tons of their friends to do their taxes with it.
They insert an activation key that tries to limit the number of returns the software does, and the number of machines it's installed on. They then botch the installation of said tools and make it very hard to remove/use until they release patch after patch.
Yet, somehow, in these great United States, they now are getting sued for trying to protect the licensing agreement that no one reads and every just clicks 'agree' onto.
What a great country we live in eh?
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