Reply to post: 407000 words? A transparent farce

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JLV

407000 words? A transparent farce

How about passing a law that voids any EULA over 1000 words, about 3 pages, on the theory that it's vanishingly unlikely that any normal person would provide "informed consent" on the use of software with terms that complex. And that pretending otherwise is dishonest.

OK, maybe not outright voiding, but at least a legal presumption/ doctrine of preponderance of evidence that the EULA was not consented to in any meaningful sense under those conditions.

I'd even support installation procedures that enforced actual reading (somehow) more aggressively, if that limit was adhered to, so that our rights and obligations would be more transparent.

Alternatively, I wonder if a lawyer could not cross-examine defense witnesses about their knowledge of their own devices' EULAs?

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