EULAs Are Dangerous !!!
p2pnet.net News:- Overbroad EULAs are one of the greatest threats to consumer rights in the high tech industry, says the EFF’s (Electronic Frontier Foundation) Annalee Newitz in her Dangerous Terms – A User’s Guide to EULAs white paper.
And on of the reasons EULAs (end user license agreements) are so dangerous is because they’re the fine print – the stuff one hardly ever reads.
Not true, you say? These days, people read everything ….
Well, PC Pitstop would beg to differ and to drive the point home, wrote a clause into one of its own EULAs promising a “consideration” including money to anyone who read it.
All they had to do then was reply via an email address in the EULA.
But, “After four months and more than 3,000 downloads, one person finally wrote in,” says PC Pitstop. “That person, by the way, got a check for $1,000 proving, at least for one person, that it really does pay to read EULAs.”
If you’re still thinking about it, you can download a Dangerous Terms .pdf here.
And if you believe you’ve been harmed by a EULA, email the EFF at eulaharm@eff.org
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See:-
greatest threats – End User Agreement warning, p2pnet, February 18, 2005
including money – It Pays To Read License Agreements, PC Pitstop, February, 2005
