Does Anybody ever read the terms of use or license agreement for software?

[TMS]

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..."

[Thenasty]

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.

[J_K_M_A_N]

That was on pcpitstop.com I believe.

It took like 6 months before anyone found it.

Read about it

J_K_M_A_N

[Grasshopper]

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).

[missioncontrol]

i only read the last three post

[Otraotaku]

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?

[ChadTower]

I read them.  They are mostly standard but every once in a while you see something wonky in there that needs to be addressed.

[Crazy Cooter]

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.

[ChadTower]

You either don't install the software or you contact the company or both.

[Crazy Cooter]

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.

[ChadTower]

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.

[Crazy Cooter]

Probably not  .  Then you might not buy it.  That would be a good idea though.

[c64rulez]

"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.

[markb]

You pays your money (or maybe not) and takes your chance as far as I'm concerned.

[Witchboard]

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.

[MajorHavoc]

That's no virus.
It's Windows!