XP Service Pack 2 Bomb

[Nick Fury]

The argument that "no one reads them" seems outlandish if used in court, IMHO. My reasoning is thar you have to click the "I agree that I have read and understand the above terms and conditions" button. That button to me says you are getting involved with a contract. I'm not gonna claim this to be true because I'm a lazy bum and don't want to look up court results right now (and I gotta go to work in 30 minutes) but from what little I absorbed from my father (who is a retired business teacher) EULAs are pretty legally binding, much the same as any other contract. True, a judge does get to decide if the EULA will be honored in the end but given the fact that we are talking about an end user that isn't using a legal copy of windows, I'm willing to bet the judge is going to sign with Microsoft. Also, once again, MS has money. They have a lot of it too. Money buys you things in the legal system of the US. Anybody remember the OJ trial?

And again, what makes you think MS is going to take responsibility for damage done to your drive when you didn't pay for a legal copy of windows? They aren't obligated and don't take responsibility for damage done by any viri currently to LEGAL copies. So what makes you think they have to provide you with service for an illegal copy?

EDIT: I have read through a few EULA agreements: the one that came with Napster. The one that came with photoshop 7 and the windows 2000 pro EULA. Not to mention the whole of the GPL (which isn't really a EULA) I haven't read them word for word but I have skimmed over them enough to know that by using the software I'm ultimately responsible for what happens to my system, not the company that made the software.