There's a (somewhat controversial) book called IBM and the Holocaust [1], which posits that the scale of the Holocaust was owed to the massive information gathering capabilities of computers.
It is only funny until you realize the likely reason that IBM's lawyers are taking that term so seriously. (You think they don't still have clients who are despotic dictators?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_involved_in_t...
Has nothing at all to do with wanting to be evil; it has to do with liability and a cute, but legally-unwise license.
If the serious grumps are willing to play along and ask for an exception, then you may as well throw them a bone. In receiving such a request you've already extracted amusement from them.