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Re: Icq 2000 ads


From: Usman Akeju <manus () MIT EDU>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 01:51:58 -0500

From ICQ's EULA (@ http://www.icq.com/legal/end-user-license.html):

"By accepting the terms of this license agreement you agree that ICQ Inc. is
permitted to limit, deny, create different priorities to different users,
update or cancel some or all of the functionality of this Software at any time,
without prior notice."

There's also other stuff on the page that implies that ICQ can basically do
whatever it wants to your computer without telling you, and it's perfectly
(a.k.a. legally) fine.  Even if ICQ doesn't explicitly say "oh yeah, there's
spyware included," they say other things explicitly enough that you can gather
that much, and shouldn't be surprised by the sudden appearance of ads from the
abyss.

-Us
;]


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