Excerpts follow:

"Principal Financial Group and Prudential Insurance Company of America want to alert you to UCITA (and) opposition from 24 attorneys general, numerous consumer groups, many large and small licensees and from the American Law Institute (ALI)...

UCITA would:

• validate shrink wrapped (standard, take-it-or-leave-it) licenses
  
  
• allow vendor to threaten disruption of licensee's critical systems through electronic "self-help" if its demands were not met; whether vendor may waive right to self-help is questionable
  
  
• impose new uncertainty regarding the duration of licensee's right to use licensed software
  
  
• change commercial practice through new default rules as to number of permitted users under license
  
  
• place unreasonable burden on licensee to discover defects during an evaluation (thereby subjecting user to licensor's contract terms)
  
  
• limit vendor's implied warranty of non-infringement to US usage, even for worldwide licenses
  
  
• restrict "perfect tender" rule to narrowly defined "mass market" transactions