Re: Media Player Update 320920 Supplemental EULA

From: Brett Goodman (bmgoodman99@99bigfoot.com)
Date: 07/01/02 

From: "Brett Goodman" <bmgoodman99@99bigfoot.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 12:44:14 -0400

David,

THANK YOU for posting this message! It seems that MS is really reaching in
their new EULAs. Eventually, they may claim ownership of your hardware! ;)

Seriously, this is a HUGE encroachment and I am surprised that nobody in the
media has run a story on this. Well, "The Register" has, but some might not
consider them part of "the media". ;) One thing I learned from the
(alarmist) story in the Register
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25956.html) is that the EULA for
this critical update includes the DRM clause if you downloaded the patch
from the security bulletin, but NOT if you downloaded it via Windows Update.
Do you want to be that MS later denies this difference ever occurred and
claims that EVERYBODY who installed this patch agreed to the DRM clause?

Why isn't anybody else SCREAMING about this?

"David Dickinson [MVP]" <eis@no-spam.softhome.net> wrote in message
news:ezF9IHlHCHA.1240@tkmsftngp10...
> From the Media Player Update 320920 Supplemental EULA
>
> "Digital Rights Management (Security). You agree that in order to
> protect the integrity of content and software protected by digital
> rights management ("Secure Content"), Microsoft may provide security
> related updates to the OS Components that will be automatically
> downloaded onto your computer. These security related updates may
> disable your ability to copy and/or play Secure Content and use other
> software on your computer. If we provide such a security update, we
> will use reasonable efforts to post notices on a web site explaining the
> update."
>
> Warning to Microsoft: DO NOT automatically disable any "other" software
> on my computer. You have no right to do so and your EULA does not
> confer that right upon you. Consider this your notice.
>
> These DRM efforts are getting out of hand.
>
> --
> David Dickinson, MVP (Security)
> EveningStar Information Services
> Las Cruces, NM USA
>
> Summary of Microsoft Security Bulletins
> http://www.zianet.com/bwd/securitybulletins.asp
>
> Followup-To set to microsoft.public.security
>
>
>

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