Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hp-ses!hpdml93!stephen From: stephen@hpdml93.HP.COM (Stephen Holmstead) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Wayne Gretzky Hockey 'Stuff' Message-ID: <15440017@hpdml93.HP.COM> Date: 8 Feb 90 18:27:48 GMT References: Organization: Hewlett Packard - Boise, ID Lines: 30 Bill Cavanaugh writes: >Several states have had their supreme courts determine that such "shrink >wrap licensing agreements" are illegal. Once you buy it, it's yours, and no >one has the right to tell you after you bought it that your rights are >restricted. > >I don't have the game, so I can't look, but does the manual use the word >"non-transferable"? That might be what was originally meant... Well, it says that you cannot sell, loan, rent, or otherwise transfer the software, either on a short-term or long-term basis, to anyone other than the original owner without express WRITTEN consent of Bethesda Software Inc. (this is NOT a quote, but very close--if someone want an EXACT quote, I will have to fetch the manual from home). I have seen this title in one of those "software rental" shops--seems like that would be a direct violation (unless the shop claims that they are not the "original owner"). This agreement doesn't seems to be binding on pirates because they aren't the original owners, either. :-) DISCLAIMER: I am NOT encouraging software piracy, but I am DEFINATELY trying to encourage software companies to quit trying to put license agreements like this on their software. I understand the need to protect your software, but preventing someone from trying to sell it when they are tired of it is REDICULOUS!! Wayne Gretzsky Hockey is a REALLY GOOD game; why do they have to attach crap like this to it? ____ ____ | / /_ __\ | Disk 0S/2 == 1/2 OS (Leo Schwab) Stephen Holmstead | | / / /_/ | | Mechanism // ...!hplabs!hpdmlge!stephen |___\ / /___| Division \X/ Amiga stephen@hpdmlge.boi.hp.com