Word: assents
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...license agreements wouldn't be limited only to books. Purchasing and using a DVD player already involves assent to a license agreement, and DVDs already contain "country codes" to prevent you from listening to a cheaper foreign DVD on an American player. Similarly, the recording industry is furiously pursuing the "Secure Digital Music Initiative," which would enable them to control the conditions under which music is transferred after the first sale. Such moves make perfect sense to the industries: they make more money from books you need a license to read, movies you need a license to watch, or music...
...Garland and several other former and current student officers say the 1997 agreement itself left many issues unresolved--and that students were pressured to give their assent...
UCITA validates holding back the terms of a deal until after a customer has paid, making clicking through legal terms while installing software or accessing content a legally airtight form of assent. Furthermore, it allows software, access and content companies to write their own intellectual property law, using "licenses" rather than sales to, for example, eliminate rights to transfer a copy or to develop products that work with other products...
...ignorant of this history, and Miriam has grown weary of pretending that a wrenching experience in her past never happened and hiding the fact that she has been living "with half a heart." With her nest temporarily emptied thanks to summer camps, and with her husband's cautious assent, she decides to try to contact the daughter she once surrendered. This plan succeeds with surprising ease; her daughter has also decided to get in touch with Miriam...
...Pound sound 37. Court-game finale? 39. Clinton will not sell four __ destroyers to Taiwan 40. Libidinous god 42. Bandleader Shaw 43. They're occasionally stripped 45. Fig-leaf wearer, stereotypically 46. Succotash morsel 48. Publican's offerings 49. Called on account of rain 50. Monsieur's assent 52. Like the Log Cabin Republicans...