Jon Freeman said: "Yep WillieO, I don't understand law but I find the terms modify and adapt worriying. Does anyone know what the legal meaning of these words are? "
Jon, I´m no lawyer but have read something about this since I started to be suspicious of all the free stuff in the net. I am almost sure that "MODIFY AND ADAPT" is nothing less than USING your graphical, musical or generally intellectual work for any purpose they want, with only minor "modifications or adaptations" just to step out of the copyright infringement.
Recently I downloaded a freeware utility program from a serious source, www.zdnet.com , who are the editors of PCMagazine. The program run very well, and suddenly had an offspring: a small window from AUREATE.COM inviting me to fill a questionaire for "statistical purposes", and a single button: CONTINUE. I shut off my machine and erased everything. Then downloaded OPTOUT from Gibson Reasearch, who confirmed I was forced to be host of a troyan, and cleaned my PC. Immediately I wrote to ZDNet telling them the incident, and asking wether they (ZDNet) were aware of these practices. Never received a reply. Finally I went to the PRIVACY POLICY of ZDNet, read the fine print, and found that they reserve the right to give all or part of the personal information you submit to them, to any third party who ZDNet may consider beneficial or interesting for you, and they should not be liable.. etc. Funny, uh?
Thanks Michael,I'll try Zone Alarm.
Un abrazo - Andrés