how much do you wanna bet they think they have found other ways to stop
hacking :)

At a glance I'd say 2550 people will have their accounts looked at ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Mann [mailto:dabard@...]
Sent: 06 April 2000 15:44
To: eqbards@egroups.com
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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