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by jnbiche 3046 days ago
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.

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>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.