Fight Woodworking Piracy: Add EULA Restrictions

Posted by Hemos on Thursday October 23, 2003 @08:57PM from the damn-the-man dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Ed Foster's Gripelog discusses EULA restriction on a new woodworking tool. A small woodworking tool manufacturer, Stots Corporation, includes a license agreement on its TemplateMaster jig tool. The tool is licensed, not sold, and customers cannot sell it or lend it to others. Nor can they sell or lend the jigs they make with it. "Shrinkwrap licenses are showing up everywhere," a reader recently wrote. "I just bought a jig for making dovetailing jigs -- this is woodworker talk if it's unfamiliar to you. The master jig contained a license that says I've licensed the master jig, not bought it. The license says I can't lend or sell the master, and furthermore I can't lend or sell the jigs I make with the master." The reader was referring to Stots Corporation of Harrods Creek, KY, and the user agreement for its TemplateMaster product. Sure enough, the Stots license says TemplateMaster may be used "in only one shop by the original purchaser only" and that "you may not allow individuals that did not purchase the original Product (to) use the Product or any templates produced using the Product..." A FAQ document on the Stots website explains that the license is necessary because "the purpose of the TemplateMaster is to clone itself. Therefore we are verifying your honesty that only you will use the tool and you will not be passing it around to others to use for free. It is exactly the same as the 'shrink wrap' agreement that comes with almost all computer software. Please help us fight 'tool piracy'."

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Re:Can't do it. by mumblestheclown · 2003-10-23 22:24 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Impressive academic reference to rivalrous goods. I surmise, threfore, that you are an academic with your head up your ass.
Are you saying that it is not possible to lease a car?
the contract is what the contract is. If you don't like the contract, don't agree to it. if the process of "agreeing" to the contract is suspect, then let an AG or a court sort it. but please don't tell me that i can't lease or otherwise give you temporary, limited use of a physical item. that's bullshit.