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Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2001 18:46:28 -0400
From: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [OT] DMCA loop hole
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<nick@snowman.net> writes:

> Yeah it is.  EULA has become totally valid and should be upheld by any
> courts who come across one.  (In the US at least.  I don't know the
> situation outside the US).  One of the recent bills/acts/whatever made
> this change.

You're thinking of UCITA, which is adopted on a state-by-state basis,
and has not been adopted by all states.  AIUI, at least.

-- 
Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> - In a variety of flavors!
Microwaves frizz your heir.