spindown: Yes, the EULA kind of sucks, but I'm quite sure they are not actually tracking GOG users. The EULA is just copied & pasted from their modern games, which do track user behavior. They have no interest in knowing how you play a twelve-year old game.
My firewall alerts me anytime a program tries to connect to the internet, and no GOG game has ever attempted to phone home. That includes the EA games, which contain a similar section in their EULA.
Fred_DM: this. it's a company EULA, not game-specific. hell, the EA EULA talks about Origin, that tells you how unrelated to the games on GoG the EULAs are.
just click it and forget it. it's what the rest of us have been doing for the past 20 years. old news are old.
I would love to be the bank when you came in for a loan. "Here, just sign this, don't bother with what it means." I'm guessing you are a supporter of SOPA and their equivalents because they would never do anything bad with it. Honest, they even promised it would only be used on the 'bad guys' and it has never been used incorrectly so far.
In any case, this file is specific to Deux Ex. Both the title and the url are unique to that game. That GoG needed to boiler plate the license to be able to offer the game and/or the competence of the person that made the license is irrelevant. This is what you agree to and it only applies to this game. GoG is turning into Steam without the client.
But then again, if they aren't going to do it, why do they need my permission in the first place? By reading to this message, you agree to send me, at your expense, your first born child once per week to perform landscaping duties in the yard of my choice. But don't worry, I won't ever really make you send your kid to mow the lawn/shovel the snow, I promise. Now just click here.
I'm sure it will be fine, they would never do the thing that I agree to let them do. Nothing bad could ever happen by allowing them to do it. It will be fine. Don't worry, be happy. I've been doing this for a long time and I know what I'm doing.