Now the Legalese Rootkit: Sony-BMG's EULA

Found on Electronic Frontier Foundation on Saturday, 12 November 2005
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If you thought XCP "rootkit" copy-protection on Sony-BMG CDs was bad, perhaps you'd better read the 3,000 word (!) end-user license agreement (aka "EULA") that comes with all these CDs.

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

You can't keep your music on any computers at work.

If you move out of the country, you have to delete all your music.

You must install any and all updates, or else lose the music on your computer.

Sony-BMG can install and use backdoors in the copy protection software or media player to "enforce their rights" against you, at any time, without notice.

The EULA says Sony-BMG will never be liable to you for more than $5.00.

If you file for bankruptcy, you have to delete all the music on your computer.

You have no right to transfer the music on your computer, even along with the original CD.

Forget about using the music as a soundtrack for your latest family photo slideshow, or mash-ups, or sampling.

Ok, it looks like Sony won't be out of the news in the next few weeks. Their idea of what's right and wrong is seriously way off. Having to choose between their "license" and an illegal copy, I would get copy for sure. From the moral aspect, the copy is the better solution.