Informed consent for this kind of stuff is hard to get. Did you know uTorrent mines litecoins for BitTorrent, Inc's profit in the background? It's right there in the middle of the legal terms.
-- Nicolás 2015-08-24 15:22 GMT-03:00 Jacob Klein <[email protected]>: > He never said "without user's consent", and in fact later clarified that > he would have the user's consent. > This is a legitimate question, with no malicious intent, so far as I know. > Try not to make assumptions. > > > > From: [email protected] > > Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 15:18:57 -0300 > > To: [email protected] > > CC: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [boinc_dev] Games with BOINC? > > > > > 2015-08-24 3:08 GMT-03:00 Henri Heinonen <[email protected]>: > > > > > Is it okay to make a computer game that includes the BOINC software > which > > > downloads and crunches WUs during the gameplay? Does the license allow > all > > > this? > > > > > > > > Isn't that pretty much the definition of a trojan? > > > > How will you handle the case where a user already runs BOINC or > Folding@Home > > or some other distributed computing system you didn't even hear of and > > installs your game? > > > > Also, if you run Bitcoin Utopia, isn't that literally stealing money from > > game players? > > > > -- > > Nicolás > > _______________________________________________ > > boinc_dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev > > To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and > > (near bottom of page) enter your email address. > _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
