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Sony DRM Installed Even When EULA Declined
HikingStick writes "News.com is reporting that the Texas attorney general is expanding the allegations against Sony. It seems the software would install even if users declined the EULA. From the article: 'The Texas attorney general said on Wednesday that he added a new claim to a lawsuit charging Sony BMG Music Entertainment with violating the state's laws on deceptive trade practices by hiding 'spyware' on its compact discs ... The new charges brought by Abbott contend that MediaMax software used by Sony BMG to thwart illegal copying of music on CDs violated state laws because it was downloaded even if users rejected a license agreement.'"
By clicking "Agree" below, you agree to the terms of this EULA. By clicking "Decline" below, you agree to the terms of this EULA.
[ AGREE ] [ DECLINE ]
Now if only the death penalty in Texas applied to corporations...
Is anyone surprised?
*Wind howling*
*Dogs barking in the distance*
*Tumbleweed passes*
*Chuch bell tolls in the next town*
No I didn't think so either.
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Sony is complaining that although they declined the offer to be sued, the Texas AG is still pursuing the case.
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End User Licence Assumption
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Egregious Unbelievable Lawyer Audacity
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Each time I think I Sony could not have made this any worst, something like this comes up. I fully expect to hear that if you run the software backwards it says something satanic.
Me: "Oh that's nothing. If you play it forward it installs Windows."
No no its even funnier! Since this is current music, the catfood was actually poison!
For right now, it's not dead.
Epilogue: lawyers organize a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against the cat food company. They get the billions of dollars, and you get a coupon for more cat food.
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Remember this is almost a bait and switch, the people bought a Celine Deon album and got the DRM disaster along with it.
Right. They were looking for a musical disaster, not a computer based one...
This sig has absolutely no significance and serves only to take up screen space and waste the time of the reader.
[ AGREE ] [ $sys$'I' DECLINE $sys$'my right to decline, so go ahead and install your sweet spyshit' ]
Simply format and re-install feline home edition OS!
EULA: End User Loses Always
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
next time ? creepy
Tyler? Is that you?
You KNOW you just broke the first two rules, right?
Hmmmm. Girl guides who deserve a spanking.
A good, kinky start.
Tell us more.
I run a bar and decide to get some live music, so I call up a group of musicians. A popular and very well known band, of course, I don't want to drive my patrons out. They tell me "sure, we'll come and play, just give us some money." So I send them a payment, and the day of the performance, they show up with a 50 page contract. "Just sign this and we'll be set". I look over it, and I see among it's provisions that they're going to firebomb the stage at the end of the show. I give them the contract back and tell them no.
Then they firebomb the stage.
Moral of the story: Don't hire Gwar to play at your bar.
Where does the school board find them and why do they keep sending them to ME?
Man turns around to find the stranger at the door has already moved his shit into his house. Does this not constitute tresspassing?
Not only, in Texas it's an invitation to kill them without further provocation.
If only it applied to computers too.
funny munging