Jupiter Jones [MVP] wrote:

> "kurttrail" <dontemailme@anywhereintheknowuniverse.org> wrote in
> message
>> You mean like MS trying to rewrite an individuals "fair use" rights
>> to the copy of copyrighted software that was legally sold to them in
>> a POST-SALE Shrink-wrap License?
>> --
>> Peace!
>> Kurt
>> Self-anointed Moderator
>> xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>> "Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
>> "Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"

What a child you are! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

> No Kurt, you should read for a change.

I read just fine thanks.

> Microsoft may have written the agreement, but it is a choice the user
> makes to accept the agreement.

Again, the choice is whether you believe that MS has the right to tell
you what you can and cannot do with your copy of copyright software in
the privacy of your own home, or doesn't not have that right.

> If the terms are unacceptable, do not agree.

Or you exercise your "fair use" rights to your copy of copyrighted
material.

> Make your choice Agree or not and then act accordingly.

Make your choice and then "fairly use" your software in your home as you
see fit. MS has already proven that it is unwilling to legally prove
that their EULA can legally strip an individual of his/her "fair use"
rights by EULA by not exercising its due diligence in legally enforcing
it for more than a dozen years. And all PA is, is a way to FUD people
into believing what MS has been unwilling to legally prove over all
these years.

> If you agree and then violate an agreement, that makes a person a
> liar.

It make you a person willing to stand up for your own rights to your
copy of copyright software! A Patriot!

>
> No rights are lost, in fact just the opposite.

Really, what rights does a person gain then? Pretty Please tell us!

> Until it is agreed to, there are no rights to use it.

LOL! You have the right to use it the split-second your dish over the
cash! You own your copy of copyright material immediately after the
previous owner sells it to you.

> Once it is agreed, then there are rights to use.

LOL! Doesn't sound like a retail sale to me. My TV came with a
shrink-wrap license, and I owned that as soon as I paid for it.

> Rights that did not exist prior to the agreement.

Obviously, you are some kind of corporate kiss-ass that thinks that
corporations have rights over the individual, just because they sell
them a retail product. I'm a consumer and I have rights to the products
that are legally sold to me, no matter what some corporation says after
the fact of the sale.

> I guess you consider the ability to legally use something more
> restrictive than no use at all.

Legally? MS's word is NOT the law. What f*#kin' country do you live
in?

>
> But this goes against the idea you have that companies such as
> Microsoft should work and give to you on your terms while you are
> unwilling to do the same with whatever you produce.

My copyrighted material is on the net, and anyone has the right to "fair
use" it under copyright law.

> Nice one way street you have made.

The copyright owners rights are whole statutory, and all they are due is
a "fair return" for their copyrighted material. And being paid for one
copy per individual for their private non-commercial use is a "fair
return."

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com/mscommunity
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei"