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 just-me rated 20 months ago- From the page: "READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, li...
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- Wilf rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "As you move through space, as you look at the Web, when you buy things, when you travel, it's increasingly the case that you end up making "agreements" to give up your rights."
- niceguyjoey rated 20 months ago
- Take the power back. Pseudo-legalese style.
From the page: "What's the point of having a consumer protection law if all it takes to get around it is to announce that you've agreed to waive your rights by buying something? If consumer protection laws don't protect people who buy stuff, whom do they protect?"
- Lovefro rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "something, you own it. The law of the land governs your interactions with the seller. What%u2019s the point of having a consumer-protection law if all it takes to get around it is to announce that you%u2019ve agreed to waive your rights by buying"
- boelter rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies ("BOGUS AGREEMENTS") that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer."
- statoun rated 20 months ago
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Finally! A way to fight back against all those of those strong-arm, sign-away-your-rights 'agreements' that have been tacked on to just about every purchase we make.
- TONYYB rated 20 months ago
- I WOULD COMMENT BUT THE LICENSING AGREEMENT I AGREED TO PROHIBITS IT.
- metalkpretty1 rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "Frankly, it%u2019s all bullshit. The way the system should work is, you buy something, you own it. The law of the land governs your interactions with the seller. What%u2019s the point of having a consumer-protection law if all it takes to get around it is to announce that you%u2019ve agreed to waive your rights by buying something? If consumer protection laws don%u2019t protect people who buy stuff, whom do they protect?"
- just-me rated 20 months ago
- From the page: "READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies (%u201DBOGUS AGREEMENTS%u201D) that I have entered into with your employer, its partners, licensors, agents and assigns, in perpetuity, without prejudice to my ongoing rights and privileges. You further represent that you have the authority to release me from any BOGUS AGREEMENTS on behalf of your employer."
- kawazu rated 21 months ago
- Dealing with licensing agreements in the "digital worlds", I somehow like this site. Did you ever wonder how buying something in the "real world" (read: offline) does happen? You go there, throw in your money, take what you paid for and then you're left with doing whatever you want to do with it (of course given you keep some general legal / ethical boundaries). However, buying something in the "digital world", be that software or movies or books or music, you are left with dealing with a whole lot of conditions aimed at just one thing: Restricting your ways of using what you paid for. Though understanding reasons for this is not too difficult altogether, one should think about it closely: Would you buy a printed book given the book seller disallows you reading it aloud to your boyfriend/girlfriend/child/whoever? I certainly wouldn't. So, basically, there probably are two parallel ways leading out of this: (a) Critically dealing with restrictive EULAs, like this site does. This of course is important as it should give people guidelines where to look, which things to pay attention to, and which products/companies to avoid. And, (b): Establishing alternative licensing concepts, think of CreativeCommons licenses for all kinds of content (music, imaging, books, ...) or the GNU GPL "Free-as-in-free-speech" license for software. Make a change.
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