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The Basics of EULAs
Garthilk writes "Blizzard recently made a bit of press when they announced that they would be actively enforcing their End User License agreement and prohibit the third party sale of game items and characters. Many people don't believe these clickthrough EULAs to be enforceable contracts. Thankfully Don Shelkey from the Corporate Finance and Technology section of the law firm Buchanan Ingersoll stops by to give us the low down. Mind you he is speaking on his own behalf and not on behalf any of his clients."
I thought the first rule of the EULA was not to talk about the EULA (so there IS a rule /. obeys).
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Examples of typical EULA language (paraphrased):
"We can install anything we like on your computer"
"We don't guarantee the program will even run, much less do what we said it will do."
"We are not liable for anything, even if our software makes your company's profits implode"
"We can collect any data we want and sell it for a profit"
"We will charge you to fix any problem found in our software, assuming we choose to fix the problem."
Sound's reasonable to me...
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
....the most impersonal form of communication ever to have been devised by mankind. It doesn't talk to you, it barks at you.
I usually do that. I drop the cat next to the keyboard and walk out, then come in again after a few minutes. About half the time, the cat has hit enough keys so that the game is started past the EULA. The other times, I usually have to restart the computer. Though there was this one time when the cat had closed the game, open up my word-processor, and had typed in the first scene of Hamlet.