Well this is fucking clever - hide a malicious powershell script inside a license file, assuming (correctly) that no one EVER looks inside a license file. #DEFCON31 (from Andrew Brandt' War Stories presentation)
"Lemley says that if a seller prices their product at $25 with the EULA and $1 million without, then the buyer who accepts the EULA is handing over $999,975 worth of value when they click 'I agree.' Lemley says we should tax that as income."
That might also be a neat solution to the "Pay or Okay" consent paywalls used to take #GDPR rights away: Tax every "consent" as income equal to the pay option @noybeu @pluralistic
@fnohe@ddgulledge@marklemley@noybeu@pluralistic Have we forgotten basic accounting? If I book income, there’s a credit to an income account and a debit to an asset account. I debit cash 25. Which asset category for the rest? Some bogus “What if no one chooses the EULA” account?
1000 choose EULA, a $1,000,000,000 tax liability on $25,000 in payments?
How come no one talks about the time value of news or new vs old information. The papers could drop the paywalls as the news ages. Then when they get read, peeps can refrence their publications and it's back to eyeballs on a page.
Add comment