Grrrrr!
Cease and Desist ;pp
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Mann <
dabard@...>
To:
eqbards@egroups.com <
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Date: Thursday, April 06, 2000 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] I'm back ;)
>Heh! How much you wanna bet they got a Sease & Desist order? ;o)~
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Kevin L. Crawford <Lyrnia@...>
>To: eqbards@egroups.com <eqbards@egroups.com>
>Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 3:27 PM
>Subject: [eqbards] I'm back ;)
>
>
>>Well, according to John Smedley Verant has decided NOT to snoop our
systems
>so I will be able to play again.
>>
>>Thanks to a lot of very concerned, mature, and very well-spoken players
the
>1984 of EverQuest was stopped.
>>
>>Quoted text from John's Post:
>>
>>*************************************************
>> Ok. We put the poll in, and with roughly 15,000 people participating the
>poll came up with 83% of the people being fine with us running the check
for
>cheating.
>> DESPITE THIS POLL we have decided that it's the wrong thing to do.
Enough
>people have convinced us that it's chipping away a little too much at
>people's privacy EVEN if they do consent for us to implement this policy.
>>
>> Therefore, the change to the EULA will read as follows:
>>
>> Solely for the purpose of patching and updating the Game, you hereby
>grant us permission to (i) upload Game file information from the Everquest
>directory and (ii) download Game files to you.
>>
>> Now, before anyone wonders exactly what this is, let me explain.
>Technically speaking we probably should have had this language in there
from
>day one for you to consent us to even download new game files to you in the
>first place. We apologize for not realizing that we should have gotten this
>consent, but live and learn.
>>
>> We can admit when we make mistakes, and I believe this is a case where
we
>owe an apology to our Playerbase. In our haste to try and thwart people
from
>damaging the game we went overboard.
>>
>> There will be absolutely no scanning of anyones computer for any reason
>other than the normal patching process (which won't do any sort of checking
>on what you have running).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> John Smedley
>> President and CEO
>> Verant Interactive, Inc.
>>
>>*********************************************
>>
>>Hurray for right to Privacy being upheld!
>>
>>Lyrnia Jongleur, Bard of Norrath
>>
>>
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>>
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