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Oh, you want to read the rest? Whatever Perry Mason. Good Luck, chump … I mean valued customer.
1. What the Contract Covers
Our asses.
We can not be held liable for any action up to and including accidentally delivering a map, a highly detailed dossier and your home key to a team of trained murderers. We also can not be held responsible if someone jimmies the tin lockbox we keep on the sidewalk that contains all of our customers’ information.
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2. Additional Terms
That thing you want to do. You can’t do it. Also, you owe us a significant amount of money now for even wanting to do it, you feckless thief-child!
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Get used to it.
5. Refunds
Ha! Good one.
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We also respect the privacy of your information, which is why we only sell it to companies that pay a lot of money for it. We do reserve the right to collect and redistribute at our casual, occasionally drunken whim information including: name, address, gender, sexual orientation, credit card information, password, secrets we got about you from an ex-lover, that one picture from that one office party (You know the one!), blood type, full genetic code and/or actual physical samples of your brain.
8. Pumpkins!
Bread legionaries squat microns on the fetid cheerleaders. We say this because we know you’re not reading anymore. All our data indicates that the amount of time people spend reading Terms of Service can be measured in picoseconds. Electrons change orbits slower than people skip past a ToS.
Unless, of course you’re a copyright infringement lawyer. In which case …
Hail, brother of the night. Champion of She that Slouches toward the Holy Sepulcher, and opens wide her gaping maw to swallow the righteous. We greet you in the black name of the Dweller of the Dark Below. May your blackened visage be burned into the souls of the devout and your fiend’s sacrament be sweetened by the blood of the innocent.
9. A Bunch of Other Stuff
Look, we know this is all legally spurious on the best of days, and probably openly unethical, illegal, unconstitutional and in violation of no less than 14 war-ending peace treaties including, much to our surprise, the Treaty of Ghent. We honestly had no idea that thing still had any gas in the tank.
But when it gets right down to it, even if we’re completely wrong, what can you honestly do about it? We made more than enough disposable money by acting like complete douchetools over the last five minutes to keep even the most clear-cut legal action locked up in an infinite courtroom Tilt-a-Whirl. We’ll just drop this four hundred grand we normally use to prop open a utility closet on some attorneys that specialize in making it impossible for anyone short of an Arabian oil magnate to hold us accountable.
I mean, we can basically just tell you that you can’t sue us, and that's somehow legally binding. Maybe it's witchcraft, honestly we're not sure, but it sure as spit works. Watch; we’ll do it now.
Ready?
Ok, here it comes.
Get ready ...
You can’t sue us.
BOOM! Nailed it. We just created a whole reality as a manifestation of our greed-fueled will, and guess what. It holds up in court. At least it does if you have our lawyers, which we hasten to point out that you definitely do not. They basically assure me that I could just put up a document that is an ASCII art of me giving you the middle finger, call it a "terms of service agreement," and, as long as you click Accept, we can do whatever we want. It’s pretty awesome as long as you're us and not you, which again we hasten to point out you are not.
So, let’s just get this over with, huh? Go ahead and click that accept button like the button monkey you are, and we can get right down to the really high-quality abuse we have planned for you. It’s not like you’re not going to press it. We know it. You know it. So, let’s rock and roll, shall we?
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I lol'd. Had similar, though less funny, thoughts when I had to re-accept EA's terms of service for BF3 the other night. Really, am I not going to accept and and be unable to play your game? Sheesh.
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Reminds me of the latest MMO I signed up for. The ever present 'ACCEPT you have read the terms of agreement' button on the bottom of the sign-up sheet. Next to it was the link to the terms of agreement. I took the time to actually read through the terms, and when I was finished the sign-up had timed out. Re-do the whole procedure if you actually want in. Obviously they were serious about having informed customers (?!).
*slow clap*
Well done.
I want to edit in the Nyan Cat in as a link for "Accept."
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
I just scrolled to the bottom and accepted. Was there something bad in it?
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I just assume the terms of service here say "You can't browse this site while wearing pants", like all of them do.
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Funny article btw. It was supposed to be funny, right? Cos I just clicked "accept" without reading...
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Why's that?
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
I wonder if there's a standard EULA out there, like a mad lib? Just plug in the company, name of product/service, and cha-ching.
What Stele said ^ -mortalgroove
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You nicked this from EA, didn't you?
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The next article's on plagiarism.
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Great post, very funny!
For some reason though, when I read "I am the law!" I thought of the mercenaries of the Flaming Fist from the first Baldur's Gate game .
I need to to hunt it down but there was a case in which a student bought WinXP and then found that it was incompatible with his machine. He decided to sell it on craigslist and MS decided to go after him to make an example. He contested their argument saying he never read or agreed to the EULA because he couldn't install the program to get to it. MS said it was implicit that if you open the box you have already agreed to the stipulations of a contract you can't read because it is inside the box. Schroediger's contract. I think that's why there are now labels on the flaps of MS boxes warning you that as soon as thee seal is broken you have already accepted the unreadable EULA.
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This makes me think the only thing wrong about a dystopian future is the word 'future'.
It's full of Kids These Days!
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
Sounds reasonable to me....
Great piece and even better responses! You guys are funny:)
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wheres the part where we agree to become part of a human centipede?
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This is exactly why I keep an escaped mental patient locked up in my garage at all times. You never know when you might need to use the insanity defense in court.
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Wow. It's a good thing I'm a total criminal with no respect for any laws. It's the only way to be safe in this litigious age.
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