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EULA's and T&C's should have stricter restrictions on them, as they are written unilaterally and the consumers have no chance of objecting to any clauses - espe
by ulucs 6y ago
EULA's and T&C's should have stricter restrictions on them, as they are written unilaterally and the consumers have no chance of objecting to any clauses - especially with digitally offered contracts where you can't cross over anything.
This is a nice step in the right direction, and I hope this ruling applies even when users are forced to "read" a twenty page contract just to call a cab.
- dusted 6y agoI agree, the core problem is not if there's some "I read and agree" checkbox or not.. The problem is that we as a society has accepted EULAs, the first time a private customer encountered this, there should have been a backlash strong enough that no-one ever dared try it again. If a legally binding agreement is required, we should expect a formal meeting with the parties involved, lawyers from both sides discussing and clarifying the terms in the contract, before solemnly signing it. For all cases where this is overkill, it's overkill, and so is any EULA.
- ehvatum 6y agoThe argument goes: “we can be prosecuted if people find out that their kids are mail ordering zero-g hydroponic kush from dudes they met in our online software, unless they have already agreed that it’s not our fault.” Unless you want to do time for pushing kush to kindergartners, you have to make your users agree to all kinds of shit. You make an average of $2.38/yr per user, so you can neither patrol their kush buys nor spend much lawyer time per user.
- netizen-9748 6y agoMaybe if kush was readily accessible to the adults who want it, there wouldn't be an unregulated black market where it can be "easily" purchased by children.
- ulucs 6y agoNo, you as Americans have accepted EULA's as-is. This is a solved problem, and you just need to import the related laws from Germany.