Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Charles Lindsey]

	On Wed, 3 Jul 2002 09:29:03 +0100
	Roland Perry <roland@linx.net> said...

> As for "click here", it's probably easy to show that you *had* to click 
> in order to se the product at all. Whether it matters that you've chosen 
> not to read all the small print before doing so is probably back at the 
> same criteria as to whether "unfairness" rules can apply.

Actually, for the particular case of websites with a 'click here'
button, you often find that the button is just a link to the next page
(or else it invokes some Javascript which is usually not hard to reverse
engineer). So if you just type the URL of the page in question by hand,
then you get to see what you were not supposed to see without having
'clicked' anything.

Actually, you don't even have to do that, because I expect the onus is
on them to prove that you clicked, and simply pointing out that there
was a bypass should be enough to get you off.

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