[geeks] Why MS's Zune product is very scary

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Fri, 29 Sep 2006 @ 23:25 -0500, Michael Parson said:

> By putting some shrink wrap, click-through agreement on it that
> basically says that you're transferring all rights of any media you load
> onto their device (and it is their device, not yours) to them.  Just
> like the rest of their idiotic EULAs.

Shrink-wrap, click-throughs, and such are illegal in quite a few states.

They used to be illegal in Virginia but some powerful lobbies got
together to change it.  I can't remember what ended up happening, just
that it changed in some way, was challenged, or something like that.

> And the sheeple will do it.

Yes, and drag the rest of us along with them.

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