[ikeboy]

If someone signs a contract allowing you to do something you're generally allowed to do the thing, with exceptions.

Dropbox uploads data from your computer on to their servers, which would be illegal had you not agreed to that as part of signing up and installing the software.

[maze-le]

The difference is that Dropbox is only allowed to access those files I tell it to. If the Dropbox client would start crawling my filesystem for 'password.txt' or 'banking-tan.list' this would be illegal, no matter what clause is written in the EULA.

[ikeboy]

On what basis are you differentiating between agreeing to something that allows then to access your stuff, and "telling it" to access them?

[jnbiche]

So you're suggesting that the FlightSim EULA laid out exactly what the installer was doing, and asked permission to exfiltrate your passwords if the registration key didn't match? I very much doubt that, and I'm skeptical it would be legal even if so.

It's unquestionably illegal to do it on the down-low, like FlightSim has done. It's malware, nothing less, nothing more.

[ikeboy]

>So you're suggesting that the FlightSim EULA laid out exactly what the installer was doing, and asked permission to exfiltrate your passwords if the registration key didn't match?

No, I'm suggesting they should add a clause saying that they have the right to access and upload anything on your computer if it's being pirated.

I never said anything about the current EULA and haven't looked at it.