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tinyE: Leave to Alaric to get all serious in a perfectly good smart ass thread. :P

$50 says he was the guy in class who at the end of the day reminded the teacher that she forgot to give out homework.
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TARFU: Your new avatar reminds me of those "wacky wall walkers" you used to be able to get in a box of cereal.
those were cool!

I'm using this avatar until I get my regular PC back.
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TARFU: Your new avatar reminds me of those "wacky wall walkers" you used to be able to get in a box of cereal.
I think that's where they got tinyE from, so... :P
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InkPanther: You're supposed print it, sign, and send back to GOG HQ!
You may chuckle at that but thanks to COPPA, we have to do it with our clients.
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InkPanther: You're supposed print it, sign, and send back to GOG HQ!
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drmike: You may chuckle at that but thanks to COPPA, we have to do it with our clients.
I had to google it. I have hard time imagining any success collecting such data based on description found on Wikipedia.
My gut feeling is that EULA don't matter at a juridically -- but what do I know?

So okay, honest question: Does those EULA have any actual legal significance? For instance, have any trial outcome been determined by whatever was written in them?
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deleted_user:
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muttly13: Even though you have no option to counter and make changes to a boiler plate which rarely stand up to actual examination? Lawyer or a bureaucrat?
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deleted_user:
Not saying EULAs are good, but you either accept it or you don't. And if you do, then you are responsible for it. =)
No you're not. They are unconscionable

Plus what happens in the case of steam games where there is a forced update with a new eula they don't agree with?
Most EULA's basically says that the costumes have no right whatsoever and that the EULA may become something entirely different in the future.

Not sure if any court of law would accept an "agreement" like that. Is there any precedence of a juridical document with a clause stating that it may change into whatever in the future?
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Sarxis: Just being honest. Why make a liar out of me with every purchase?
Ditto. I never read or "officially" accept their null and void contracts they try to force on us. One day I must tell that to all those organizations that have incorrectly presumed that I will "submit" etc just because I click on a "yes" or "agree" button or whatev because that is the only means I can get the product/service etc that I paid them for. Anything more complex than a handshake agreement. Talk to my solicitor.
I read it everytime just to make sure they didn't slip in a part that says everything I own is now theirs.
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KasperHviid: My gut feeling is that EULA don't matter at a juridically -- but what do I know?

So okay, honest question: Does those EULA have any actual legal significance? For instance, have any trial outcome been determined by whatever was written in them?
I wonder that myself too. There's always a sheer unbalance in them: forbidding all kinds of things to the customer, while wavering any responsibility themselves. It would be interesting to know how such EULA's hold up in court, when there's a conflict and that what's prescribed in the EULA gets held against what's really written down in law.
In the end, all such agreements will eventually change their terms in ways deeply prejudicial to the consumer, and very little will be done to challenge it.

Just like my student loans.

;_;
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PoppyAppletree: Just like my student loans.
How many students were lent to you? Are any of them attractive, at least?
No matter what, in the end, you just have to ACCEPT it
I cross my fingers, and start laughing like that bloke on Dark Side Of The Moon.