Is there a way you could use anti-circumvention technology to make it impossible to sue a company for making cracking software? I mean, it seems like a paralell enough concept.
Example: AOL put out an upgrade a while back that messed up a person's windows internet stuff, right? but no one could sue them for damages because, presumably, they had clicked through something saying, hey, I take responsibility for what this software does.
SO, what if a piece of software, say, generates the registration key as a sideaffect, and as part of the EULA, you said you would take responsibility for everything the software does, and that you won't reverse engineer it.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it seems like EULAs just allow big Corporations to cover their ass from their mistakes blowing up in people's faces and causing damage, but it doesn't cover a person's individual responsibility to use a potentially illegal piece of software.
For instance, its like saying they can sell you a TV that blow up in your living room (but you signed an EULA), but you're NOT allowed to buy a gun, because, hell, those things are to kill people.
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Has no one noticed the picture with her motorcycle in foreground and the Chernobyl sign in the background?
Are we to assume its photoshopped?
I personally don't think it is.
Just to be clear, gettting the "standard" chernobyl tour-van to haul a bike seems less likely than occasional bribery.
That doesn't mean she hasn't lied some, just that I think there is room for some truth in her story.
Is there a way you could use anti-circumvention technology to make it impossible to sue a company for making cracking software? I mean, it seems like a paralell enough concept.
Example: AOL put out an upgrade a while back that messed up a person's windows internet stuff, right? but no one could sue them for damages because, presumably, they had clicked through something saying, hey, I take responsibility for what this software does.
SO, what if a piece of software, say, generates the registration key as a sideaffect, and as part of the EULA, you said you would take responsibility for everything the software does, and that you won't reverse engineer it.
I guess what I'm getting at is that it seems like EULAs just allow big Corporations to cover their ass from their mistakes blowing up in people's faces and causing damage, but it doesn't cover a person's individual responsibility to use a potentially illegal piece of software.
For instance, its like saying they can sell you a TV that blow up in your living room (but you signed an EULA), but you're NOT allowed to buy a gun, because, hell, those things are to kill people.
sorry so long.
got on a rant.
-t