Reading ELUA pays off in $1000!

[IdeaStormer]

So no one reads the EULA in software, well guess someone does as they came off with a $1000 bounty/easter egg in reading the EULA of PC Pitstop.

 

 

Now everyone is out reading EULA's :lol:  there could be a bounty out there for some lucky sucker B)  Maybe they'll have one with a schnizle clause?

 

Ref: http://fullyc.com/this-software-company-buried-a-1000-prize-deep-in-its-terms-of-service-to-see-if-anyone-actually-read-them-take-a-guess-how-long-it-took-for-someone-to-catch-it/

 

PS: Do not install that software, its one of the biggest tracking/troll apps out there.

[miyabwah]

Welp, like you said. Time to start reading EULAs.

[That Norwegian Guy]

First off, it's EULA*

 

Second, ToC/ EULAs are not considered legally binding contracts in my country, in fact they are not even considered to have any purpouse what so ever, this is why I completely ignore them. Also because it is an asinine concept.

[Alex780]

If no one asks for the pancakes, you're safe

[Beskamir]

We could all be slaves by now because of the EULA...

[flibberdipper]

Never have, never will. Besides, who has time to read a 50,000 word long EULA anyway?

[Kamil]

First off, it's EULA*

 

Second, ToC/ EULAs are not considered legally binding contracts in my country, in fact they are not even considered to have any purpouse what so ever, this is why I completely ignore them. Also because it is an asinine concept.

 

You consider contracts to be an asinine concept? Or is there something in particular that differentiates EULAs and the like from contracts on paper (other than your country's laws).

[That Norwegian Guy]

You consider contracts to be an asinine concept? Or is there something in particular that differentiates EULAs and the like from contracts on paper (other than your country's laws).

 

The law prohibits the provider of a product or service to sign off any of the buyer's rights or to take provisions against certain responsibilities that the law requires from any such business. For example, you can not constrain the buyer's return policy lower than the legal minimum (6 months for physical goods if faulty when bought online, 12 months if broken in some way that isn't user negligence) - all you can do is extend upon that. IE, it's in most cases impossible to lower the buyer's minimum rights, only to extend it. So the only parts of most EULAs that are applicable under the law here are those that gives the user more rights than the consumer laws already guarantee.

 

 

So to answer your question, I do not consider contracts an asinine concept, but I consider most EULAs to be as they are more often than not illegal contracts.

[Kamil]

The law prohibits the provider of a product or service to sign off any of the buyer's rights or to take provisions against certain responsibilities that the law requires from any such business. For example, you can not constrain the buyer's return policy lower than the legal minimum (6 months for physical goods if faulty when bought online, 12 months if broken in some way that isn't user negligence) - all you can do is extend upon that. IE, it's in most cases impossible to lower the buyer's minimum rights, only to extend it. So the only parts of most EULAs that are applicable under the law here are those that gives the user more rights than the consumer laws already guarantee.

 

 

So to answer your question, I do not consider contracts an asinine concept, but I consider most EULAs to be as they are more often than not illegal contracts.

 

Thanks for the explanation, it definitely makes sense when you think about it that way. After careful consideration, I would say that the most fair way to form contracts is that rights can only be waived by the WRITER of a contract, in which case they would clearly have an understanding of what they are actually doing. If people actually read what they're agreeing to the problem wouldn't really matter to me either way, but with how ridiculous most contracts are these days I would also say that's a pretty unreasonable expectation...

[IdeaStormer]

First off, it's EULA*

 

Second, ToC/ EULAs are not considered legally binding contracts in my country, in fact they are not even considered to have any purpouse what so ever, this is why I completely ignore them. Also because it is an asinine concept.

 

Typo's

[mr moose]

You consider contracts to be an asinine concept? Or is there something in particular that differentiates EULAs and the like from contracts on paper (other than your country's laws).

 

I am having trouble finding the case, but I am sure I remember a case here in Aus. were the EULA was considered by the court to be unnecessarily long and it was unreasonable for a domestic consumer to be required to read and understand a legal document of that nature when current copyright laws were suitable. I think it also went on about not have the right to impose a legal contract upon a customer after the sale had taken place.   Consequently the case was thrown out of court.