Those parts of the the end user agreement exist because corporations are sociopathic when it cxomes to control of their so clled "intellectual property". Even if it improves the success of the product they don't like people knwoing their secrets.
My brother recently toild me about Kotor2. Apparently it was rushed by Lucas Arts to selling. This forced Obsidian entertainment to cut alot of content. However Obsidian wanted to make a free downloadable patch for owners of the game which would reintroduce the cut content. It would have been at the cost of Obsidian not Lucas Arts. However Lucas Arts said no and severed their relationship with Obsidian.
Does that make any sense? Surely that would have made the game more successful but Lucas Arts said no.
The reason these kidns of things are apparently against the rules is that they likely want to create their own expansion packs that you have to buy.
However they really can't tell us what we can or cannot do with our software. They can't say we can't sift through lines of code that are on our computer. We are also allowed to make copies of the disc in order to have a backup for our own purposes.
Alot of what they put in those agreements isn't really based on law. it's mostly alot of big words that they have to intimidate people. For instance that part that says
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To use it contrary to morality.
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Well their only ability to control the product is via the law. What does morality even mean? Does it mean I can't kill anyone with the game disc? Force my hamster to eat the game manual and cause it's death because of the chemicals in the paper?
For me the whole idea of intellectual property is sketchy and totally against the interests of society. This absolute control of ideas and code once it is in the public domain is a futile idea. What are they going to do anyway? Sue the people that keep people buying their game thereby alienating the small community?
People wonder why I'm a pinko.
