Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!SCP
From: SCP@cup.portal.com (Sunshine Computer Products)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Blindness / pirating
Message-ID: <10311@cup.portal.com>
Date: 21 Oct 88 22:31:41 GMT
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YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS AGREEMENT, UNDERSTAND IT AND
AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AND CONDITIONS.  YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT IT
IS THE COMPLETE AND EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN YOU
AND TIMEWORKS AND ITS DEALER WHICH SUPERSEDES ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR
AGREEMENT, ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY OTHER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN YOU
AND THE DEALER RELATING TO THE SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT.

This is, word for word, the agreement Timeworks give you when you buy
software from them (Publish It!, at least).  No signature required or
requested.  Where do they get off telling me what I agree to?  How can
they tell me that I understand something?  
Once software is opened, most stores won't allow you to return it.  You
are not given any hint about the existence of this license until after
you open the product.  How can this possibly be enforcable?

Douglas Granzow  scp@cup.portal.com