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"Raymond Martineau" <bk039@ncf.ca> wrote in message
news:334a619sabjio0qjpdj512tkllj6vtl9el@4ax.com
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:29:02 GMT, "McGrandpa"
> <McGrandpaNOT@NOThotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> "Inglo" <ioo@??.żżż> wrote in message
>> news:lxO8e.325$Xb4.185@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com
>
>>
>> Well, that's just one more reason to like Steam a bit more.  A .sys
>> driver for a CD check.  That is just too much.   Is there even
>> anything in the EULA about that crap?
>
> There's a lot of stuff that appears in EULAs that most people can't
> find out.  If you pick a random EULA and calculate it's readability
> statistics, you'll find they generally require a grade 12 reading
> level as well as being difficult to read.  These statistics don't
> mean a thing, but they do help demonstrate what is already known.
>
> Honestly, I don't believe that they even read their own licenses.
> Some recent batch of demos from the Maximum PC cover disk where their
> EULAs allow you to play two hours - yet the timer only allows one
> hour of play.

Aside from the EULA part, read what it was Inglo said that one anti 
piracy scheme did:

It installed a Windows SYSTEM DRIVER that is going to be there even if 
the disk is not.  Businesses evidently are allowed to be as invasive as 
they want, do whatever they want, as long as they can get away with it. 
I use Steam because (so far) it appears to be clean of malware and it 
does offer some benefits.  But that system driver installed just to do a 
cd check?  Nope.  Gotta go.
McG.