How does UCITA change software and informational purchases?
First, under UCITA, the software purchased would no longer belong to the buyer — UCITA allows consumers to become licensees who are bound to the terms of the contract provided in “shrink-wrap” products or “click-on” agreements. UCITA further allows these restrictions on use to be revealed or changed after the user purchases the software. UCITA then allows software publishers to prohibit the transfer of software from one person to another or from one company to another, even in the course of a merger or acquisition.
