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> A software product could even "seek permission" from the vendor -- via the Internet or your modem -- each time it ran, so that the vendor would know whenever
by Emendo 6y ago
> A software product could even "seek permission" from the vendor -- via the Internet or your modem -- each time it ran, so that the vendor would know whenever you started the program.
Now it is the norm.
- ReactiveJelly 6y agoAnd better yet, whenever you complain about how invasive it is, someone will appear to take up page space to call you names for wanting things to be better.
- autoexec 6y ago"everybody does it so who cares!" as if the fact that everyone is exploiting you somehow makes it acceptable.
- stjohnswarts 6y agoNot just to check for license but also to upload all your activity for their AI to comb through :)