It used to be that if you paid for a license to use a software program you were considered “software legal”. Now, however, not only must you pay for, and prove that you paid for the application, it must be used according to the agreement. Do you read license agreements?
How important is it to read all license agreements to all copyrighted products? VERY! Reading the agreements and following what is being agreed to is key or you will be feeding the software industry kitty over and over again. And, it has become difficult to know what is being agreed to as agreements become purposely more complex.
A previous blog entry,You're Ok, it isn't you!, quotes Josh Greenbaum as describing software contracts as "the most convoluted, obfuscated, totally unintelligible type of contract on the planet". They seem to be designed that way. Did you know it is predicted by the copyright protection industry that you will violate your license agreements? How is that?
You are inevitably pirating copyright protected products because you do not read—nor do you closely follow—the license agreements to which you are legally bound...Basically, all of your problems with copyright protected products will find their roots in the license agreement. --Alan L. Plastow
Alan L.Plastow of BizTechNet tells How You’ll Get Caught in The Software Anti-Piracy Scam.
