Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit


	Sony's EULA is worse than their rootkit

Teosoma

12-17-2007 1:11 PM

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security, computers

Teosoma says:

1. If your house gets burgled, you have to delete all your music from your laptop when you get home ...

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12-17-2007 6:59 PM

splendidus

At first I thought that's a joke... but obviously not...

12-18-2007 10:28 AM

Teosoma

seems not ...

nobody take the time to read the EULA most of the time, thinking : oh well, they are all the same ... well ... maybe not ...

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