Ed Foster's Gripelog || License Revocation

Ed Foster's Gripelog || License Revocation:

Enjoy this column while you can. You never know when I might decide to revoke your license to read it.

Over the years when UCITA was looming, I often talked about how its 'electronic self help' provisions could allow a software publisher to unilaterally deprive customers of the right to use products they had purchased. While UCITA might now be toast, the spirit of electronic self help is very much alive with something called 'license revocation' - a kind of electronic self help for content. And, particularly if Microsoft has its way, license revocation could make for a very strange world.