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

[microlenz(at)earthlink.net]

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