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Re: Ross's TCPA paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marcel Popescu)
Fri Jun 28 00:38:43 2002
From: "Marcel Popescu" <mdpopescu@subdimension.com>
To: <pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca>, <cypherpunks@lne.com>
Cc: "Pete Chown" <Pete.Chown@skygate.co.uk>,
<cryptography@wasabisystems.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:51:03 +0300
X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: cryptography@wasabisystems.com
From: <pasward@shoshin.uwaterloo.ca>
> As a side note, it seems that a corporation would actually have to
> demonstrate that I had seen and agreed to the thing and clicked
> acceptance. Prior to that point, I could reverse engineer, since
> there is no statement that I cannot reverse engineer agreed to. So
> what would happen if I reverse engineered the installation so that the
> agreement that was display stated that I could do what I liked with
> the software? Ok, so there would be no mutual intent, but on the
> other hand, there would also be no agreement on the click-through
> agreement either.
I have an application that replaces the caption on the "I agree" button to
your liking; I wrote it exactly because of this reasoning.
http://picosoft.freeservers.com/NoLicense.htm
Of course, it's a stupid little program, I'm sure anyone can come up with
something better in no time... BTW, for any lawyers around here - shouldn't
the mere existence of this program be enough to blow up the idea that you
agreed to the click-through stuff?
Mark
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