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Let's assume this site does exactly what the author thinks it does, and by clicking "accept", you agree to never give anyone the url submitted here. How, then,
by zck 14y ago
Let's assume this site does exactly what the author thinks it does, and by clicking "accept", you agree to never give anyone the url submitted here.
How, then, could runn1ing have submitted this link? Let's look at the page containing the license agreement: http://www.stanford.edu/~laurik/.book2software/ http://www.stanford.edu/~laurik/.book2software/ . Let's assume that opening a page doesn't make you agree to any of its content, so you can read the agreement without being bound to it. Look at the source of that page. Beyond the boilerplate "you can't sue us for our software kicking your puppy; we get your firstborn child unless it's ugly", there's a <button> element. Its _onclick_ method? window.location='publishing_this_url_is_probited_by_the_license_you_accepted_getting_here_from_the_previous_page.html'
So simply append that url to the folder in the current page, and you get to the submitted link without ever accepting the terms in the agreement.
Besides, as polemic says, 4(a) says nothing about sharing the download url.
And also, there's no text on the download page that says that downloading any content indicates you accept the agreement, so you can even download the software without agreeing. The license agreement page does say "BY DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR USING THE SOFTWARE, ... YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT."
So, arguably, if you read the agreement page, downloading the software on the download page indicates you agree to the terms. But if you've never seen that page, you haven't agreed to the terms.
Oh, and if it's not obvious, I'm not a lawyer. If you mistake any of this for legal advice, please let me know so I can laugh at you.
- xtdx 14y agoYou could also align the pointer over the button, shine a laser pointer on your mouse button, and have your cat click it for you. Since you didn't click the button, you didn't accept the license. Arguably.
- derleth 14y ago> You could also align the pointer over the button, shine a laser pointer on your mouse button, and have your cat click it for you. Since you didn't click the button, you didn't accept the license. Arguably. Nice try, but no. Courts are run by human beings, who apply their own judgement to the case at hand and take things like that into account. Intent is definitely part of what's considered for most crimes. The legal system is weird, political, too-insular at times, and funny-looking from the outside and the inside, but it's a system that's evolved, in the case of Common Law, in parts from pre-Roman Germanic tribal customs. The system has been dealing with smartasses like you since before your ancestors had been deloused.
- ivanstojic 14y agoInstead of this, I believe we need a kosher computer mouse (like the light switch here: http://www.kosherswitch.com/live/ http://www.kosherswitch.com/live/). You click the button. In some random amount of time the mice might or might not produce a click event. So you hit the button on the mouse and walk away for a cup of tea :-)
- mikeash 14y agoIf it's good enough for God, it has to be legal!
- ktizo 14y agoI wonder about the religious ramifications of the fact that this is patented. Is it allowed by doctrine to attempt to hold a monopoly for profit over items that are designed for religious observance?
- ivanstojic 14y agoI believe they patented the specific way that they remove causality and interaction with electronic circuits, not the idea itself. I'm reasonably certain one could come up with a few different/non-infringing designs that accomplish the same goal.