Re: [dvd-discuss] Shrinkwrap Licenses....extending them

["Glendon M. Gross" <gross(at)xinetd.ath.cx>]

There is someone out there who is doing something very similar using 
common law copyright based on the U.C.C.   I have a friend who is
looking into it.  The book with the information on it is called
"Cracking the code."  You copyright your name and then charge people
extensive fees when
they use it to attempt to sue you.  (My friend is charging $500,000. per
use of his buisiness name, which he has copyrighted.) At that rate,
it could be very expensive for his creditors to sue him.  


microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> 
> Something I've been pondering as I slowly reconstitute my home computing after
> problems, upgrades, and the like (the old machine is going to LINUX with a boot
> manager...the data acq. board doesn't have a linux driver)...The whole idea of
> a shrinkwrap license is that I can dump it on your doorstep using the mail, UPS
> or through the market place or Internet and when you open it, click on it or
> whatever a CONTRACT suddenly appears where none existed before. A contract
> without negociation or a meeting of the minds and in the case of the small
> print ones prolifferating one with questionable legality.
> 
> So...what other kinds of questionallby legal contracts can form from this
> perverted notion...
> 
> Supppose I send a check to the Republican party in a box with a shrinkwrap
> contract saying "you agree that if you cash this check the Republican party
> platform will hence forth never mention the XXX issue and if you ever do you
> will pay damages of $1000M to me!"....
> 
> What about donations to politicians?
> 
> Or  Charities...
> 
> Any other ideas?
> 
> Realize this is a reductio ad absurdum sort of approach