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[Leon Goldstein]

Alan Jackson wrote:

>I think we need a law like the one that makes car dealers recall cars and
>repair them for free when they have manufacturing defects. Microsoft just puts
>a patch on their website and then they wash their hands of it. Now *I* have to
>go help my Dad and help my wife download and apply the stupid patch. I should
>send them a bill.
>
I suspect that the MS EULA has sufficient escape clauses.  No one really 
owns a copy of Windows,
people just board it in ther computers.

On the other hand, it may be possible to apply nuisance statutes against 
people whose infected computers are sending the spam.  A nuisance does 
not require intent, or even awareness, of the delinquent.  If the owner 
of an infected computer fails to remediate a nuisance that occurs on, or 
in, his property, after being duly notified by authority, he is guilty.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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