Brainlord’s Petition to Change the EULA

[Cheif Operations Director]

7 minutes ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

If the CEO of T2 buys a gun, should I be concerned? He has the potential to shoot me now.

If you are gonna go around protesting every EULA based on that logic, it might be easier to just be Amish? Learn to churn butter? The EULA you agreed to for every other digital thing you've ever used or bought is no better or worse.

Obviously he cares and he isn't Amish.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

So...a year from now when the EULA hasn't changed one bit, and nothing sinister has happened with KSP, can I tell you guys I told you so?

I mean, I'm gonna either way; I just want to make sure you'll be cool about it.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Rocket In My Pocket

[Kernel Kraken]

4 minutes ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

That depends. is he asking for PERMISSION to shoot you?

This is the point of the thread people who are protesting this protest. T2 has a gun, it's the Squad KSP1.4. it's an effective model, with a relatively high stopping power. T2 has the gun. We know that. They just asked us our permission to shoot us with it, and if we decline, we cannot access the forums, wiki, or our copy of KSP. This is why I have not updated. I want to play the game and post on the forums and learn about the game on the wiki without the possibility of T2 updating their KSP gun and shooting me. I agreed to the EULA, I was too stupid to read it and I wouldn't have been able to learn about the controversy without my forum account. This sucks, in my opinion. Stop saying that we are trying to hurt T2's sales and stop them from providing content and blah blah blah. We simply want T2 to clarify if they will shoot us or ask them to give up their permission to shoot us.

-Kraken.

[Rocket In My Pocket]

Just now, TheMadKraken2297 said:

This is the point of the thread people who are protesting this protest. T2 has a gun, it's the Squad KSP1.4. it's an effective model, with a relatively high stopping power. T2 has the gun. We know that. They just asked us our permission to shoot us with it, and if we decline, we cannot access the forums, wiki, or our copy of KSP. This is why I have not updated. I want to play the game and post on the forums and learn about the game on the wiki without the possibility of T2 updating their KSP gun and shooting me. I agreed to the EULA, I was too stupid to read it and I wouldn't have been able to learn about the controversy without my forum account. This sucks, in my opinion. Stop saying that we are trying to hurt T2's sales and stop them from providing content and blah blah blah. We simply want T2 to clarify if they will shoot us or ask them to give up their permission to shoot us.

-Kraken.

Don't hold your breath, the smart thing for Take Two to do is just ignore any back lash, and that's exactly what they'll do.

As I've said before; it won't hurt my feelings if you guys get whatever EULA it is you want. I'm not against you.

I'm just pointing out that you're tilting at windmills Don Quixote.

[Kernel Kraken]

2 minutes ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

Don't hold your breath, the smart thing for Take Two to do is just ignore any back lash, and that's exactly what they'll do.

As I've said before; it won't hurt my feelings if you guys get whatever EULA it is you want. I'm not against you.

I'm just pointing out that you're tilting at windmills Don Quixote.

They will ignore  that backlash, we already know they do. (GTA Modding fiasco) and I don't think they'll follow in EA's path in listening to mob mentality. I just feel better thinking something out and presenting a calm argument. For some reason I think debating a point is relaxing. 

Edited March 13, 2018 by TheMadKraken2297

[Rocket In My Pocket]

1 minute ago, TheMadKraken2297 said:

They will ignore  that backlash, we already know they do. (GTA Modding fiasco) and I don't think they'll follow in EA's path in listening to mob mentality. I just feel better thinking something out and presenting a calm argument. For some reason I think debating a point is relaxing. 

Fair enough. I suppose I'm here for the same reason, lol.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

Here, I found I EULA I wrote.

It covers the Company's butt in terms of implied warranty, liability, explains the license models and protects the IP.  It doesn't say anything about about collecting information, because we weren't selling spyware.

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Somebody asked if it was approved by a lawyer, of course it was, the same one who told me I could get a job writing tort.

Edited March 13, 2018 by Brainlord Mesomorph

[Kernel Kraken]

Wanna see how to start a flamewar and totally detail the thread at hand? 

KSP is spyware. The NRA brainwashed y'all and they're gonna steal your children. THE RAPTURE IS HERE! REPENT

Add 2 teaspoons of salt and let boil for 3 days.

4 minutes ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

 

It covers the Company's butt in terms of implied warranty, liability, explains the license models and protects the IP.  It doesn't say anything about about collecting information, because we weren't selling spyware.

 

Ninja'd... You already started the flamewar with that spyware thing.

Edited March 13, 2018 by TheMadKraken2297
Why do you ask me my motive for improving my posts?!

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

18 minutes ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

So...a year from now when the EULA hasn't changed one bit, and nothing sinister has happened with KSP, can I tell you guys I told you so?

I mean, I'm gonna either way; I just want to make sure you'll be cool about it.

I won't be here.

[linuxgurugamer]

1 hour ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

Thank you.

That's the point.

On the contrary, it would be naive to give someone permission to do something bad to you,  based solely on the assumption that they won't take you up on it.

tac·it 

1. understood or implied without being stated.

Maybe by you, but not by me.  I understand that it's a standard EULA, used by the company for most if not all of their games.  As such, it needs to cover all cases, WHETHER OR NOT THE SOFTWARE ACTUALLY DOES IT OR IS INTENDED TO DO SO.

So, let me present a case:

1. Microsoft releases an update for Windows which breaks about 5% of all KSP installs
2. Squad is unable to easily replicate or debug  this, so they release an update with a partial fix and some  data gathering to return debugging data to Squad to help in the final resolution of the problem
3. Squad finally fixes the problem and releases yet another update.

This EULA covers these cases, so that when people install the updates, they don't get more EULAs to respond to, don't get confused, etc.

If they were to totally remove the sentences in question, then every time they release an update, people would have to respond to the new EULA for every update.

Since most people use Steam, their games can get updated automatically, making a smoother user experience.  Otherwise, it can be a real pain

Oh, and thank you for posting your EULA, I'll be reading it later.  I assume it was for a game?

Edited March 13, 2018 by linuxgurugamer

[LordFerret]

40 minutes ago, Rocket In My Pocket said:

If the CEO of T2 buys a gun, should I be concerned? He has the potential to shoot me now.

If you are gonna go around protesting every EULA based on that logic, it might be easier to just be Amish? Learn to churn butter? The EULA you agreed to for every other digital thing you've ever used or bought is no better or worse.

You're overly flippant and drawing parallels to things which have no bearing. This has me not taking you seriously.

The dressed insults and poking aside, there is an issue here for some people and your dismissing it and them does nothing but inflame the situation.

 

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

5 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

Maybe by you, but not by me.  I understand that it's a standard EULA, used by the company for most if not all of their games.  As such, it needs to cover all cases, WHETHER OR NOT THE SOFTWARE ACTUALLY DOES IT OR IS INTENDED TO DO SO.

As I said in the OP:

Would you sign an agreement with your gardener that gave him access to your bank account, because in his other job, he’s an accountant? And he just uses the same contract for everybody? (“Oh, that part doesn’t apply to you, just sign here, and also I’ll need your account number.”)

I don’t think so.

[LordFerret]

6 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

making a smoother user experience

Ah.....

[linuxgurugamer]

1 minute ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

As I said in the OP:

Would you sign an agreement with your gardener that gave him access to your bank account, because in his other job, he’s an accountant? And he just uses the same contract for everybody? (“Oh, that part doesn’t apply to you, just sign here, and also I’ll need your account number.”)

I don’t think so.

And you conveniently ignored the second part of my post, the one which actually asked you a question

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

34 minutes ago, linuxgurugamer said:

Oh, and thank you for posting your EULA, I'll be reading it later.  I assume it was for a game?

This question?

No not a game. A DB app for 3D animators.

... and 40 users on the petition 

 

EDIT: But you didn't answer my question: Does the gardener get access to your bank account? 

Edited March 13, 2018 by Brainlord Mesomorph

[linuxgurugamer]

1 hour ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

This question?

No not a game. A DB app for 3D animators.

... and 40 users on the petition 

 

EDIT: But you didn't answer my question: Does the gardener get access to your bank account? 

So a DB app for 3D animators is a little different than a consumer game release.  Which would require a more complicated EULA because of all the things that people tend to do.

And no, I don't even have a gardener

[linuxgurugamer]

2 hours ago, The Dunatian said:

KSP has adware.

Really?  Where?  

I am not aware of any ads in KSP.  Please show a screenshot of adware in KSP, I am very interested in seeing this

[snip]

Edited March 13, 2018 by Vanamonde

[DAL59]

17 hours ago, Kerbart said:

Any butcher can hold a knife. And yet. I'd rather have a certified surgeon cut me open to remove an infected appendix than the local meat cleaver "who has plenty experience with cutting meat it." Would you let the gas pipes in your house be fixed by your brother-in-law who has watched "three or four youtube videos, it's really not that hard" or do you play safe and use an licensed & bonded plumber?

It works the same with law. Yes, it would be nice if it were readable as plain English. But the words do not always have the same meaning, and punctuation matters. An experienced eye can spot deficiencies where you don't, and won't get alarmed where you will. So yes, I'll be more likely to take the word from "someone who studied for it" than from a good willing but untrained layman whose approach is "how hard can it be."

I agree completely.  However, you don't have to be a professional movie critic to know that the Holiday Special is worse that the Empire Strikes Back. 

Overall, I think whether or not anything in the EULA means something undesirable... nothing will happen.  After a few months, when nothing has changed, the forums will settle down.

 

@KasperVld

Oh,he's gone

 

[Jacmac]

I look at all EULAs pragmatically. I ignore them unless/until the EULA owner does something stupid. I must have accepted thousands of EULAs over the years, I don't know what any of them say. They could say I'm giving up the right to exist on Earth and I wouldn't know it.

[Vanamonde]

Removed some more personal comments. Please take about the subject and not each other. 

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

2 hours ago, linuxgurugamer said:

And no, I don't even have a gardener

No that's BS.

Answer the question.

[Brainlord Mesomorph]

2 hours ago, linuxgurugamer said:

So a DB app for 3D animators is a little different than a consumer game release.  Which would require a more complicated EULA because of all the things that people tend to do.

What do you mean "all the things people tend  to do?"

Please be specific.

[linuxgurugamer]

1 hour ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

No that's BS.

Answer the question.

Sure.

I don't give my gardener my bank account info, but I do give him my CC info if/when needed

52 minutes ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

What do you mean "all the things people tend  to do?"

Please be specific.

How can I be specific when people (aka pirates, thieves, people who don't care about others, etc) are so inventive?  

[Starman4308]

6 hours ago, Brainlord Mesomorph said:

EDIT: But you didn't answer my question: Does the gardener get access to your bank account? 

He doesn't (not that he exists), and I find it unlikely that Take Two gets access to your bank account from the EULA.

Once again, you are not a lawyer. Winning a case pro se does not make you a lawyer, reading EULAs doesn't make you a lawyer, only intensive study of the law, judicial precedent, and all the other things that can affect interpretation of the law does.

 

Without knowing the details of the case you won, I can surmise a few possibilities:

1) It was such an open-and-shut case that even pro se representation was sufficient to carry the day.

2) You were lucky and got an agreeable judge and/or jury, or possibly the opponents' lawyers were really bad. Bad lawyers do exist.

3) You put in a lot of study into an area of law with very few gotchas that only lawyers would be likely to know.

 

Who knows, maybe you're the best armchair lawyer in the world. Until I see any evidence of that, though, I'm going to chalk this up to a hefty case of the Dunning-Kruger effect, propped up by an n=1 anecdote about winning a case and a bunch of contracts that likely were never challenged in court.

I've by now read a fair bit about rocket science and engineering. Does that make me a rocket scientist? Absolutely not. There are endless details to it that only get taught with dedicated training. In my own field, I see new researchers struggle to try to figure something out that I can crack in seconds flat.

[Cheif Operations Director]

1 hour ago, Starman4308 said:

He doesn't (not that he exists), and I find it unlikely that Take Two gets access to your bank account from the EULA.

Once again, you are not a lawyer. Winning a case pro se does not make you a lawyer, reading EULAs doesn't make you a lawyer, only intensive study of the law, judicial precedent, and all the other things that can affect interpretation of the law does.

 

Without knowing the details of the case you won, I can surmise a few possibilities:

1) It was such an open-and-shut case that even pro se representation was sufficient to carry the day.

2) You were lucky and got an agreeable judge and/or jury, or possibly the opponents' lawyers were really bad. Bad lawyers do exist.

3) You put in a lot of study into an area of law with very few gotchas that only lawyers would be likely to know.

 

Who knows, maybe you're the best armchair lawyer in the world. Until I see any evidence of that, though, I'm going to chalk this up to a hefty case of the Dunning-Kruger effect, propped up by an n=1 anecdote about winning a case and a bunch of contracts that likely were never challenged in court.

I've by now read a fair bit about rocket science and engineering. Does that make me a rocket scientist? Absolutely not. There are endless details to it that only get taught with dedicated training. In my own field, I see new researchers struggle to try to figure something out that I can crack in seconds flat.

And do you need to under stand "legalese" too . Listen if you need to be a lawyer to read the EULA then it isn't a good Eula. It's like this analogy. A company sells you a car and put a 75% down payment. Then the next month they come to your door and say: Sign this contract, you might need to consult a lawyer. They hand you a 20 page contract in "legalese" you say let me consult a lawyer, they say ok but we won't leave your door until you sign it or we want your car back. You consult a lawyer and it reveals they can take all of your info you placed into your car which has a built in laptop that you already used. So now what you, you ask to get your money back right. Oh well in your orginal contract they won't issue a refund unless required by law. Also you technically used said car for a month. So now what what would you do... 

Edited March 14, 2018 by Cheif Operations Director