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Message ID: 17364
Date: Wed Apr 5 16:46:27 BST 2000
Author: Dennis Gustavsson
Subject: Re: [eqbards] It's been swell folks
> Agreed.
>
> They've gone too far this time.
>
> I sent a email complaining to bmcquaid@... (Brad), jbutler@...
> (Jeff Butler) and jsmedley@... (john smedley). I suggest that anyone
> who feels strongly that this will compromise EverQuest send these three a
> courteous email regarding the matter.
>
> Don't flame, be polite and be concise. Hopefully we can get them to see
> reason. I personally will not be playing again until/unless that part of
> the eula is removed.
>
> It's been wonderful.... farewell my friends...
>
> Kev
>
> aka: Lyrnia Jongleur, Bard of Norrath (Retired)
>
> >
> > Well, since Mr. Smedley and company have decided that to protect their own
> > backside (see....lies we got away with till some smart users outfoxed us)
> > and are putting this in their EULA....
> >
> > "You hereby grant us permission to download Game-related files to you. You
> > also grant us permission to access, extract and upload
> > (i) Game-related data as part of the patching process and (ii) data
> > relating to any program that we, in our reasonable discretion, determine
> > interferes with the proper operation of EverQuest
> >
> > I will no longer be financially supporting EQ in any way, shape or form.
> >
> > I know what caused it - I know I have neither the technical expertise, or
> > equipment setup to do it - but I'll be DAMMED if I am going to give some
> > gaming company - companies that are notorious for hiring 'you want fries
> > with that help' permission to sniffel around the innards of my PC.
> >
> > In case the above doesn't make a lot of sense to you - in plain English it
> > means....
> >
> > You give us permission to look at anything WE think we need to inside your
> > PC - and upload it to our offices.
> >
> > I don't know bout the rest of you, but I have a heck of a lot of personal
> > information, CC #s, Tax information, etc on the same machine I use for
> > 'gaming' - and I'll be dammed if I give them a blank check to poke around
> > as they see fit - and ship things of interest back to their offices. Sorry
> > - trust only goes so far.
> >
> > http://lum.xrgaming.net/ for a rant and message board on this subject.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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