Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!super!udel!rochester!rutgers!ukma!sean From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Dark Castle copy protection Message-ID: <10684@s.ms.uky.edu> Date: 10 Dec 88 06:46:02 GMT References: <1613@behemoth.UUCP> Reply-To: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY Lines: 19 In article <1613@behemoth.UUCP> mph@behemoth.UUCP (Mark Huth) writes: >You probably bought a license to use the program in the the manner >specified in the license. With the exceptions of certain "fair use" >extension to those rights, you don't have the right to use the program >in any other manner. I'm curious. Has the "shrink wrap" license stood up in court? If, for example, someone can't read and breaks the wrap on some software, is he bound to that license even though he hasn't signed anything? Here in KY, a contract isn't a contract until you have two John Hancocks, but then again a contract isn't a license either. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet *** Who sometimes never learns. {backbone site|rutgers|uunet}!ukma!sean *** U of K, Lexington Kentucky, USA ..where Christian movies are banned. *** ``You gotta love that!''