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Reading all the small print on the Internet for a week

48 pointsby cjgover 9 years ago

4 comments

Kristine1975over 9 years ago
I'll happily agree to sign away my first-born. First because you can't sign away what you don't have, and second because such a clause would be void where I live (Germany). Yay customer protection laws!
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at-fates-handsover 9 years ago
Me and friend (he was a contract attorney) started a company that read and published the fine print of various products (many of it was software and smartphone contracts and EULA&#x27;s) and tried to warn consumers what they were signing off on.<p>We didn&#x27;t get far because after a year, it was clear nobody cared what was in the EULA&#x27;s they were signing even if it meant giving up your personal information. They were more concerned with the ability to use a new piece of hardware or software they thought was cool without thinking about the ramifications of giving out so much personal information to do so.<p>It was eye opening to say the least.
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ameliusover 9 years ago
This reminded me of Richard Dreyfuss&#x27; dramatic readings of the iTunes EULA: [1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Cu0lqUlHEko" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=Cu0lqUlHEko</a>
Asbostosover 9 years ago
My product has an EULA less than 200 words so I feel I&#x27;m not being too awful. About half of it is just there because of the requirements of the licences of all the libraries it uses. No reverse engineering - really? I don&#x27;t care but Intel does and I&#x27;m using their library. Can&#x27;t freely distribute? I don&#x27;t care but the LGPL and MIT licences do so I have to put it in my EULA.
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