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I wonder if this will speed up the push to "renting" software as opposed to buying it.

By that I mean, in order to use any software product, you will need to phone home and what you do is logged on a server. This way, the vendor may be able to find a way to blame you for a violation.

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I hate to admit it, but the EUrocrats who drafted this are smarter than that:

All software is covered, sold, licensed, embedded, rented.

Even the cloud services tied to products are covered.

Yes, but only B2C.

Why would renting software be any different? If you rent a defective car, the company that rents it to you is still liable.

Now (or at one time), you could buy Microsoft Office and use it without an internet connection.

With this, maybe that option will be gone, companies can blame the EU for requiring a internet connection and the user is stuck being logged/spied on agreeing to this via an EUL.

In your imagination maybe.

A company cannot exempt itself from product liability with an EULA.

Cloud services are also explicitly mentioned as covered.

This is an absolutely terrible argument. So much shrinkwrapped software phones home these days well before this law. MS Office has required it for years! Look up MS Office XP (2001).

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