Windows Media Player user license extensions

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>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.

I'd assume the onus to be on you to prove you have a right to use the
software at all. Otherwise warez becomes legal.

I can pick up a newspaper and walk out of WH Smith without paying; I
have circumvented their ineffective "authorized newspaper purchase"
system, but that doesn't make it legal.


Cheers,

Phil