Back in 2005, one lucky PC Pitstop customer won $1,000 by simply reading our End-User License Agreement (EULA) We temporarily added a clause to our EULA offering money to anyone who contacted us, but it took five months and more than 3,000 sales before the first person – dropped us a line asking about the clause.
7 years later — our experiment continues to garner attention in articles detailing the dangers of unread EULAs.
EULAs. Who reads them? They are lengthy and boring to read especially when all you want to do is to continue and use the application or game that is supposed to be installed. However, believe it or not, there are a lot of ridiculous clauses that you have agreed upon when installing the application. Some of them are excusable while others can be a violation to some as well. Nevertheless, that is the fault from not reading the EULAs. We’re not saying that you should be reading it every time you want to install something but here are just some of the things that you shouldn’t be surprised that you have agreed to.
Ridiculous EULAs that You Agreed Upon–techzed.net (May 2012)
Let’s be honest, no one reads EULA’s (End User Licensing Agreement) – we all just scroll down to the bottom and click “I Accept”. EULAs are full of confusing legalese to make them incomprehensible to the average person – no one actually wants us reading them (you could use EULAlyzer, which reads them for you). That explains how these ridiculous clauses can exist in EULAs without any outcry.
10 Ridiculous EULA Clauses That You May Have Already Agreed To–makeuseof.com (April 2012)