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Main => Everything Else => Topic started by: TMS on January 18, 2006, 04:50:03 pm
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I have been in IT for over 5 years and never read one. I'm surprised no compnay has put in a line yet like "By agreeing to the terms of use, you authorize the manufacturer to steal your personal information and use it to balckmail you, etc..."
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there was one the said " that if you call this # or mail this to them, they will award you $1000.00" only one dude sent it in cause he's the only one that read the EULA for all the product thats been purchased. Search it here, its been a while, don;t have the link.
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That was on pcpitstop.com I believe.
It took like 6 months before anyone found it.
Read about it (http://www.pcpitstop.com/spycheck/eula.asp)
J_K_M_A_N
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Personally I think EULAs are a try on and probably don't carry any legal weight at least in relation to consumers (corporations might be a different matter).
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i only read the last three post
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i just make sure theres not one of those buttons that enables to continue in the agreement... forget which game i saw that had that... hmm?
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I read them. They are mostly standard but every once in a while you see something wonky in there that needs to be addressed.
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How do you "address" it?
I skim for additional crap that will be installed without me being able to bypass it in the setup menu. That's all I really care about.
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You either don't install the software or you contact the company or both.
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Have you ever called them up before? I never tried that. It could be quite funny. I always thought it was lame that once you read the EULA, the package was already opened and you couldn't bring it back anyhow.
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Yep, I have, though not for consumer software. I would imagine that consumer software all has pretty much the same EULA.
It is lame that the retail return policy precludes you from reading the EULA. I wonder if you could get it off the company's website before you bought the software.
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Probably not ;). Then you might not buy it. That would be a good idea though.
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"By reading this post you are agreeing that any harm caused to you mentally, or otherwise morally, orally, etc. is ....."
(insert 8 pages of bla bla here)
"... ONLY YOU TO BLAME FOR"
Q.E.D.
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You pays your money (or maybe not) and takes your chance as far as I'm concerned.
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We got a virus at work that had an EULA. I guess you really couldn't call it a virus, since they agreed to the EULA and it stated it would infect your system. That's what happens when people open email attachments and click faster than they can read.
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That's no virus.
It's Windows! ;D