I am setting up my new music PC and adding some utilities and such.
A few are:
Foxit or other PDF reader
Vipre anti-virus
Revo
Photoshop
Office 2013
Asio4all
iConnectmid2+
Glary
Ccleaner
Belarc
Everest alternative
Team Viewer
Smart defrag
Drivers:
GPU
Focusrite
Huion
Brother printer
I was told recently to be very careful on which EULA’s to “I agree” with.
My Question is on "license agreement" OR EULA
1. What to look out for?
2. Is there a list of apps with bad or questionable agreements?
3. Is there an app that reads the EULA and searches for bad language?
4. What is the worst case bad EULA scenario?
list of utilities I am looking at:
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=165661
5. On a side note if I am not on the internet and try to install one of these apps and it requests an internet connection. Is this a suspicious request? This never bothered me before but now this time around I am being more careful.
Good and Bad EULA’s
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- KVRAF
- 6078 posts since 27 Jul, 2001 from Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA
My Studio: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7760&p=7777146#p7777146
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- KVRer
- 15 posts since 23 Jun, 2005
I look for the "Next" button 
- KVRian
- 1100 posts since 9 Jan, 2015 from NY, NY
Watch the South Park episode 'Human CentiPad' before you just click the 'Next' button...
Sweet child in time...
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- KVRAF
- 2802 posts since 31 Aug, 2011
Insolence.Kalamata Kid wrote: I am setting up my new music PC and adding some utilities and such.
A few are:
Drivers:
Focusrite
My Question is on "license agreement" OR EULA
1. What to look out for?
When they think they can stick their noses into things that are none of their damn business and/or when they think that using one of their products somehow establishes a kind of King/Peasant relationship where they are the King and you are the Peasant, i.e. they can do and dictate whatever pleases them and you as the insignificant Peasant do as youre told.Kalamata Kid wrote: 4. What is the worst case bad EULA scenario?
Example Focusrite:
I dont know about others, but personally i havent seen a more insolent paragraph in any EULA before or after in my entire life. Because if you actually do consent to this, youre not only giving them the legal right to pretty much drop by whenever they see fit, youre also giving them the legal right to rummage through your computers as they see fit because after all they have to establish whether or not you are in compliance with all the things they have dictated to you while at the same time refusing any and all responsibility for any and all issues that relate to the software you payed them good money for.Focusrite EULA wrote: 2.2 You must permit the Licensor and his representatives, at all reasonable times and on reasonable advance notice, to inspect and have access to any premises, and to the computer equipment located there, at which the Software or the Documentation is being kept or used, and any records kept pursuant to this Licence, for the purpose of ensuring that you are complying with the terms of this Licence.
And thats where i draw the line. There are many things i would sooner do than consenting to something like that, including never again using a PC for music purposes at all. Because when i see something like this, all i can think is 'you cant be serious', therefore even if the stuff is free (and it was in this case) there is just no way in hell i would ever use it with things like that in the EULA. It just goes too damn far.