[Fwd: Re: Adobe reader]

[Hans de Goede]

Richi Plana wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 22:03 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>> Is it allowed to just download the EULA's text to the window, or do we
>>> also have to leave the whole page intact?
>>>
>> IANAL, but I think just downloading the text will be fine (but how do we 
>> extract it from the webpage?)
> 
> I wouldn't be too sure. The reason I brought up the question in the
> first place is that I recall an issue where a site was legally taken to
> task for deep-linking past a page that users were supposed to go
> through.
> 

This is not the case with acrobat reader, adobe shows the text that by 
downloading you agree to the eula, and a link to the eula on the download page, 
no ok button to click on, no dirty javascript / cookies, they have a clean 
wgetable download url, without any tricks needed.

Regards,

Hans