Re: Another Web Site
On 26 Aug 2000, at 21:50, irv wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, Dan wrote:
> > Kat,
> >
> > Paranoid? If so, that makes a pair of us (pair a noids!)! I set up a free
> > firewall after I saw that some commercial programs *for children* were
> > sending encrypted info back to the company when on internet after child used
> > program. And since I have set up a passport account in order to ask MS
> > questions about software problems, now I'm concerned about *that* too.
> > Sigh.
>
> Maybe it was just "checking registration", but I doubt it. There's a lot of
> personal info stored on our computers.
>
> I'm waiting for the only logical outcome of this - suppose company M finds a
> copy of their software on Joe's pc, and deletes or disables it.
> Further, suppose that Joe digs up a receipt which shows he legally owns the
> software. Now, he can claim that company M owes him 12 zillion dollars for
> lost
> revenue, and with 12 zillion dollars at stake, you know Joe will have the best
> lawyers money can buy.
I wouldn't get to the conclusion that he will have lawyers, or the best ones,
not after
what happene to me last week in court. I went in with medical bills, government
eyewitnesses and documents, photos, chemical analysis tables, a time/date
stamped
history log, *and* the defendant confessed in court,,,, and you guessed it, i
lost. This
is Alabama.
Besides, when you "buy" software now from a big company, you don't own it, you
lease it till such time as the owner deems that you don't. And how can you prove
company M did the deleting?
Kat,
disillusioned.
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