Gotta love them EULA's!

[Kuasimodem]

This is part of the readme for Alchemy Mindworks handy little progam called GIF Construction Set Pro

HACKER WARNING

GIF Construction Set Professional is true shareware - nothing is crippled or disabled in the downloadable evaluation copies. We invite you to try out every feature in the software exactly as it will work at such time as you register. GIF Construction Set Professional does not include a time-limit, exclusive of beta expiry dates. It will not cease to function one day and hold your graphics hostage until you pay for it.

The only "price" for evaluating GIF Construction Set Professional is that it will display its shareware reminder notice when you exit the software, and it will add an UNREGISTERED SHAREWARE comment block to the GIF files it creates. These will not appear in registered copies, of course.

Regrettably, there are people who seek to disable the shareware notices in applications like GIF Construction Set Professional, in effect, to enjoy registered copies of GIF Construction Set without paying for them. We regard this as theft, no less so than someone who seeks to enjoy a television set or a car without paying for them.

In order to prevent the theft of GIF Construction Set in this way, GIF Construction Set's registration codes are fairly sneaky. They permit GIF Construction Set to know with a high degree of certainty when it's having its leg pulled by someone with a bogus code. Being a very patient application, GIF Construction Set does not always respond immediately to attempts to "register" it in this manner.

We have encountered several attempts by software pirates to create GIF Construction Set registration code generators. Of these:

• Some flat-out did not work.
  
• Some generated illegal codes which GIF Construction Set will accept for a time and then reject.
  
• One actually generated genuine GIF Construction Set codes about one time in twenty, and generated illegal codes the rest of the time. Best of luck guessing which was which.
  
• One was infected with the Stoned virus.

If you feed GIF Construction Set a bogus code, it will eventually do something fairly surprising (albeit non-destructive). Consult your imagination for the possible meanings of "eventually" and "surprising."

We've been developing software longer than most of the parties responsible for trying to crack GIF Construction Set's registration codes have been alive. Consider whether you want to believe us or a prematurely-bald fourteen year old kid who identifies himself as "CrakkHed." Consider further the cost of a legitimate, registered copy of GIF Construction Set Professional compared to the time it will take you to reformat and reload your hard drive, should CrakkHed's illegal code generator turn out to be the one with the Stoned virus.

It's probably worth pointing out that GIF Construction Set's registration codes use a system of internal checksums to distinguish between typing errors and deliberately bogus codes. For example, if you enter fourteen randomly-chosen digits into the Registration Code field, GIF Construction Set will do nothing more surprising than tell you that your registration name and code do not match. The odds of someone attempting to enter a valid registration code and entering a code which GIF Construction Set regards as being bogus by mistake are one in 100,000,000,000,000. By comparison, the odds of being killed by lightning are about one in 100,000,000, a much more tangible threat.

Alchemy Mindworks specifically disavows any responsibility for consequences arising out of the use of hacked copies of its software or illegally-obtained registration codes, however surprising said consequences may be.

Who says software vendors don't have a sense of humor

[BobOmega]

Consult your imagination for the possible meanings of "eventually" and "surprising."

i want to know that myself....

and i enjoyed reading that one. unilke other eulas....