Slashdot on License Bombs
Humor/Amusing
5/2/2000; 9:59:11 PM Feb. 15, 2000: A few days ago I used the phrase license bomb to describe putting a license on some copyrighted material that you must accept in order to use, almost identical to a software license. Does anyone know how far that could be taken? Could I put a license bomb on my resume? My web pages? My registration information? And what with UCITA passing (assuming it continues to do so), maybe we could make a truly absurd license and attempt to enforce it, claiming that UCITA protects this. This slashdot message has the idea, and I think it's genuinely worth trying; why wait for "the industry" to provide an acid test?

"By using this registration information for any purpose except verification of warranty, you agree to pay me $100 or 90% of the revenue you recieve from the selling of my information net, whichever is greater, to be paid before so selling my information. A late-payment fee of 25% will be compounded monthly for failure to pay, capping $25,000 or 10,000 times the net revenue recieved, whichever is greater." Think it would work?