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[ NNSquad ] [mjh@itys.net: Re: CNN's use of "Octoshape" slips live video P2P into users'?PCs]
----- Forwarded message from "Matthew J. Harmon" <mjh@itys.net> ----- Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:46:39 -0600 From: "Matthew J. Harmon" <mjh@itys.net> Subject: Re: [ NNSquad ] CNN's use of "Octoshape" slips live video P2P into users' PCs Lauren Weinstein wrote: > > The potentially negative implications of Octoshape seem quite serious > in a number of ways and from a variety of bandwidth use, privacy, and > security standpoints. Given the reported lack of obvious, fully > informed disclosure to users about what this software is really doing > (language buried in the usage "fine print" doesn't fulfill this > requirement), one wonders if there might also be some interesting legal > issues as well in various locales. > > http://windowssecrets.com/comp/090205#story1 Lauren: This brings up an interesting question for the lawyers, by implicitly using (allowing) users to re-distribute their content does this grant re-distribution rights in perpetuity to the end-user for the content? The Octoshape EULA [0] only has two mentions of copyright under "do not use for illegal purposes" and IP for the software. Content is mentioned under "no warranty and limitation of liability." Perhaps this was overlooked. Cheers! Matthew. 0. http://www.octoshape.com/play/EULA.pdf ----- End forwarded message -----