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news@zodiac.ADS.COM (USENET News) writes:

|3) My legal Understanding is that shareware that is delivored to me, without
|my specific request, is probably legally mine to use as I wish, but that if
|I take action to obtain such shareware, after being informed of the authors
|conditions, then I may be legally responsible for following these conditions.

It's very doubtful that you are legally responsible for following those
conditions. Wonder why software vendors won't prosecute for violation of
a shrink wrap license? It's because they have every reason to fear that they
will lose, and set a precedent.

I don't like being told that I'm bound by a contract that I never signed.
Opening a shrink wrap or downloading software proably does not constitute
a valid agreement. For almost anything like that to be legal, it requires
a signature or at least some overt paperwork with the author (as in checking
"yes" on a subscription offer).

Sean
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***  "May I take this opportunity of emphasizing that there is no cannibalism
***  in the British Navy. Absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there
***  is a certain amount, more than we are prepared to admit." -MP