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Authored by: DrRobert on Dec 23, '02 12:24:36PM

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the accessing of publicly available information; however, the is nothing that assumes that a program's author may use that information. The insidious thing here is that that information is LEAVING my machine without my consent. It should be clear to a purchaser what a program is doing on his machine. The analogy is not using a phone book to look up a number, the analogy is digging through a person's personal papers that he left on his front porch to obtain an unlisted phone number. If he really only wants to stop piracy then he should clearly state that he will harvest this information so that we may choose not to use his software. I should never be denied of the choice to not distribute my personal information. I always pay for shareware and never pirate software, but I never register either. Once I buy a piece of software the seller has no right to know what I do with it.



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