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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Twin Rose" data-source="post: 1119217" data-attributes="member: 2765">I agree with you here.  End User Agreements come with every piece of software, and you almost always have to say you agree when you install.  I haven't actually purchased any data-sets from CMP, but I might do so tonight.  I'm curious what the End User Agreement when you purchase the data (pre-order in this case) says.  I don't believe adding an End User Agreement AFTER you have paid your monies is binding, at least in terms of data.Would you purchase a PDF from RPGNow if you then received a EUA that said you could only use that PDF with an "RPGNow Exclusive" PDF viewer of their own make?  (Whether or not it was free?)  I think if you knew ahead of time, though, you could make an informed decision.. and I would wager that many would go and try this viewer to see what made it so nice.  CHanging it, later, migth be problematic though.This would be especially interesting if the datasets come in an XML format.  Using Internet explorer, you can view an XML file, close and open nodes, search and more.  Using more advanced programs, you could make your own character sheet that reads the XML ... But an End User Agreement that said the files can only be read in PCGen or ETools would mean you couldn't do these things, which is really much of the value.Just my 2 cents, and I"m not a lawyer.</blockquote>