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Offline 1wingnutone

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« on: April 19, 2004, 05:02:54 PM »
If anyone reading this has installed the US Army sponsered sim called Americas Army I would like to ask if you bothered to read closely the EULA? There is a small paragraph contained in it that if you weren`t aware gives them permission to inspect EVERY square bit of data in you HD regardless of whether it pertains to the game or not.Apparently Big Brother is alive and well and living inside your computer if you have the game installed.They give no reason for the intrusion except to say that its basically the price your going to pay for the use of their "free" game.I guess what they meant by "free" was they are now free to snoop into whatever info you have stored on the system.They appear to have taken the art of data mining to a new height. If you don`t mind having every site, every e-mail, every IM, every program or anything else contained on your computers hard drive pawed through and picked over, inspected and diseminated to every government agency from most likely the FBI and (yes) the CIA then by all means go ahead and play it to your hearts content.But, if like me, you like to keep your private life PRIVATE I suggest you remove said game as soon as you can.Because I will bet you anything that if you have a pic of your old lady naked on there or anything else you would just as soon keep to yourself and your running tht game they are probably at this very minute downloading every scrap of data contained on your HD to one of their servers and they will have their own version of Americas Army checking it ALL out.
  I guess this proves once again that nothing really comes for free, theres a price to pay for everything.  :mad:

Offline Saurdaukar

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« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2004, 05:10:26 PM »
The Army loved my pr0n before I deleted the boring bellybutton game.

The Drill Sergeant in the 'training' phase sounds like Gomer Pile on an ego trip.  I wanted to virtually punch him.

Offline lasersailor184

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« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2004, 05:26:19 PM »
Yeah, the moment the rifle didnt hit where it was pointed I uninstalled it.

Then burned the CD.
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Offline 1wingnutone

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hmmmmm
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2004, 06:54:47 AM »
burned it eh...did u read the eula tho?

Offline lasersailor184

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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2004, 07:41:04 AM »
Err, not like burn it as in Copy.  


Burn as in FIRE FIRE!
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Offline 1wingnutone

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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2004, 01:57:49 PM »
Ya man I knew you meant it that way,but I am still wondering if you read and understood what the EULA said regarding having access to everything on your HD?
 I`m just curious as to how many people that are playing AA know that they gave up all rights to privacy by agreeing to the terms and conditions of it.

Offline muckmaw

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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2004, 02:03:25 PM »
Did you take a screen shot of the portion of the EULA that talks about inspecting my HD?

Offline 1wingnutone

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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2004, 02:18:36 PM »
No I didn`t but in hindsight I wish I had.If its really important for you to see it I can run my recovery program and get it back just long enough for that tho but get back to me quickly before its to late to do it

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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2004, 02:47:01 PM »
Nah, don't bother.

I don't play the game anymore. Not very cerebral.

I'll just wipe it out tonight.