EULA's get into contract law not criminal law.
What is a contract worth if you are not going to keep it. Or to echo
Tom's word, is it just a business decision.
Would you want to shop at a grocery store where they view contracts
as something only to be kept if it is to their advantage?
Would you want to eat at a restaurant if they decided to keep the
health regulations if it was only to their advantage?
It comes down to a matter of ethics.
Can I name you a number of companies that have shown a lack of ethics
because they made business decisions? (Tyco, Cendant, Adelphia,
Enron, MCI/Worldcom to name a few of the better ones.)
Now the corollary comes up, what is the ethical standard of an EULA
that restricts the software from being used in a normally useful and
seemingly legal way?
It is an ethical minefield out there.
Just remember this old axiom. Two wrongs don't make a right, but two
Wrights made an airplane.
Stewart
At 12:36 PM 5/25/2007, you wrote:
>So, my question is: What, precisely, are all the things that could go wrong,
>were I to violate the EULA?
Have we gotten to the point where every crime is just another a business
decision? If the benefit exceeds the fine or the probability of getting
caught is not high then is there anything you would not do?
Rev. Stewart A. Marshall
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Prince of Peace
Ozark, AL SL 82
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