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Yes there are. There are plenty of rights which the law gives you which you can't surrender, because they occur in asymmetric situations where one party has mor
by ig1 16y ago
Yes there are. There are plenty of rights which the law gives you which you can't surrender, because they occur in asymmetric situations where one party has more power than the other.
For example you can't sell yourself into slavery and you can't surrender your right to reverse engineer a technology (in most developed countries).
Anti-competitive practices is another area where the law has intervened in these sort of situations in the past. For example in the case of printer ink refills (although the law has chosen not to intervene in the console market).
- CWuestefeld 16y agoWe could have all kinds of debate here. I assume that we can all agree on the slavery part, but I'm not so sure about the reverse engineering one. Your personal feelings may differ, of course, but I'm having trouble constructing an argument against the signing-away of reverse engineering rights, from basic natural law principles. Here's another fun example: clearly the right to free speech is fundamental, at least to those in our society. So how is it that a court can uphold, e.g., an NDA?