A snippet from PC World: http://www.pcworld.com/article/191312-2/tech_secrets_21_things_they_dont_want_you_to_know.html
End User License Agreements May Not Be Enforceable It doesn't take much effort to sign an end user license agreement: Rip open a software package, or tick a box on a Website, and you're legally bound. But your obligations depend a lot on where you live, says Jonathan Ezor, director of the Institute for Business, Law & Technology at the Touro Law Center on Long Island. "EULAs are contracts, and contract law is state law," says Ezor. "It's governed by the state where you live or where the company is based." For example, courts in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals (Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania) and the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas) have found certain types of EULAs invalid. Other factors include whether the agreement contains unenforceable restrictions, whether it gives consumers sufficient choice, and what method it provides for users to indicate agreement, Ezor adds. The odds of your going to court over a EULA, however, are slight. The real issue is how companies enforce them, Ezor says. "What companies really don't want you to know is how easy it is for them to turn things off or erase them," he adds. "Think of what happened last year with the Orwell books that Amazon just erased from people's Kindles." On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Lawson English <lengli...@cox.net> wrote: > Lance Corrimal wrote: >> just had a little popup shoving the new TOS under my nose, and behold, >> with accepting the TOS you also accept the TPV. >> _______________________________________________ >> > I wonder if that's even legal... > > > Lawson > _______________________________________________ > Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: > http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev > Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges > -- “The greatest danger in modern technology isn't that machines will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like machines” Unknown http://www.google.com/profiles/techiedavid _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/OpenSource-Dev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
