Not sure why the shock and outrage about this. I have seen these installation audit terms in contracts going back decades. No company is going to bother a home user that might have installed it on more than 1 PC, but a 100+ person company that might have bought a single license and then installed it on everyone's PC would have the audit provision enforced if there is sufficient reason to suspect that the license has been breached.
This might be triggered if phone-home numbers aren't a match for the number of seats that were purchased, but in most cases it is when a former employee becomes a whistleblower and turns the company into to the vendor.
Standard enterprise license tools
Not sure why the shock and outrage about this. I have seen these installation audit terms in contracts going back decades. No company is going to bother a home user that might have installed it on more than 1 PC, but a 100+ person company that might have bought a single license and then installed it on everyone's PC would have the audit provision enforced if there is sufficient reason to suspect that the license has been breached.
This might be triggered if phone-home numbers aren't a match for the number of seats that were purchased, but in most cases it is when a former employee becomes a whistleblower and turns the company into to the vendor.
Internet Tax Freedom Act
Putting aside the cable/video distinction, isn't this prohibited by the Internet Tax Freedom Act that was made permanent in 2016?
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