Heh! And I take it you notice how they not only stopped doing it VERY quickly, but have yet to try it again ;o) *has a feeling someone either threatened them with or sent tham a C&D heeheehee)

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The Rathe

>They also thought that was a perfectly legal method of determining if you
>were running programs which monitored communications to your own PC on the
>slim possibility that they might be reading the data that they sent to you.
>I would guess that their lawyer is a standard business practice lawyer with
>little experience in copyright and intellectual property law and none in
>constitutional law.
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bill Mann [mailto:dabard@...]
>Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 11:01 PM
>To: eqbards@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] OT: A Warning...
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>Remember that this is the company that thought no one would mind nor notice
>if they sniffed around in your PC during a patch.
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>The Rathe
>> One last tidbit for the faithful...it has been quoted to me that there is
>> a legal representative on the council that makes banning decisions.
>> You'd think even a Verant lawyer would know enough about covering one's
>> ass to not have made a huge mistake here.
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