Poll: Do you ever actually read the Terms of Service?

[Gralian]

Yes. In fact, reading the Terms and Conditions has actually made me select 'disagree' because i genuinely disagreed with the T&C. The instance i am talking about specifically is joining the Rockstar Social Club. It sounds like a good deal - get free content like extra hideouts on RDR and a suit on LA Noire, but when you read about the sort of metrics and personal info the eponymous "The Company" takes when you agree to the T&C of the Social Club, it really starts to feel like Big Brother gone mad in the video games industry. I'm just not comfortable with that.

Most people tend to just assume they agree with the T&C of something because they think it's all legal jargon that amounts to "you agree you won't do anything illegal like reverse engineer this material". I read the T&C of things i sign up to carefully from time to time, depending on what it is. If it sounds too good to be true, it generally is.

 

[Grubnar]

Nope.

Wait, that is not entirely true. I did read the EULA for ... I think it was "Red Orchestra" because it was actually readable. Not the usual legal gibberish.

 

[Blue2]

No because even I should, it's the same thing every time. "You can use this product/service but don't make any money off this without any permission"

 

[Twilight.falls]

The first time a TOS come up, I'll read it through.

Can never be too careful.

 

[Happy Yay]

I've heard that the Terms of Service they ask you to sign would never hold up in court.

Even if they did though, I wouldn't read them.

 

[Wintermoot]

I think I only read the one for iTunes it really says you can,t use it for Nuclear/Biological weapons.
but I think it boils down to "copyright of the X corporation copyright 199X-20XX if your computer blows up we didn't do it"
if companies want us to read them they should make it 1 A4 instead of 8.

 

[Bobbity]

Of course not, don't be silly.

Well, unless it's something I suspect to be somewhat dubious that I'm signing up for.

 

[Duskflamer]

Company owns rights to the game, don't pirate it, don't hack into it, yadda yadda yadda right? I don't do anything that would get the makers of a game angry at me, and given the tenuous legality of these agreements to begin with, I'm sure that as long as I don't try to pirate/hack/make a profit off of it/etc, I'm fine.

 

[Active Schizophrenic]

Where is the poll on this poll?

 

[immortalfrieza]

I'm surprised that this video has not been posted yet:


I never read the terms of service, because they are very long and I think it's unlikely that they will ask you to donate kidneys on the second Sunday of every month or something

I don't read them either, for the same reasons. Besides, we all know that they make the terms of service as long and complicated as they possibly can when they easily can make them only a couple paragraphs just so nobody actually does read it, so they can then use technicalities to screw their customers over.

 

[Eridani74]

Tried once or twice. Kept on reading for about half an hour only to realize that I was only a quarter of the way through (and I'm a fast reader) and that they had only said pretty much the same thing over again in five different types of legalese.

 

[Quaxar]

I've heard that the Terms of Service they ask you to sign would never hold up in court.

Even if they did though, I wouldn't read them.

Pretty much. If you bought the software but then have to agree to their ToS to be able to use it it's of absolutely no juristic validity.

So no, I never do. Though I read the one from the Windows Vista installer just because. Would not recommend doing that.
I don't even read forum rules generally. I just act like a reasonable human being and I have never been in trouble in any forum I've been to.

 

[Cazza]

I lightly read it. Just to check nothing dogdy was added. If you have read one you have read them all.

 

[kasperbbs]

Never, i don't have any apple products so i guess i'll at least won't end up as a human centipede anytime soon(south park episode).

 

[Booze Zombie]

Nah, most of them are the same: "Don't steal shit, don't do anything illegal and don't cost us money."

 

[Seishiroa]

Since they don't hold any legal sway in my country I never bother to read them. Why would I trudge through a 10 to 20 pages long, totaly pointless document?

 

[Mr. Gency]

Occasionally. How else would you find these gems....

Spoiler: iTunes EULA

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

Spoiler: Another Apple EULA

THE APPLE SOFTWARE IS NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE OPERATION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES, AIRCRAFT NAVIGATION OR COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEMS, LIFE SUPPORT MACHINES OR OTHER EQUIPMENT IN WHICH THE FAILURE OF THE APPLE SOFTWARE COULD LEAD TO DEATH, PERSONAL INJURY, OR SEVERE PHYSICAL OR ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE.

Makes me laugh.

Makes you wonder why they even put it in there. Did some lawyer come up with it or did someone really use an OS on life machines, and when it crashed, sued the company?

As Gordon Freeman said "They wouldn't say something like that unless someone actually did it."

 

[Tallim]

hahahaha, nope

wonder how many different companies now own my soul...

Gamestation?

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2010/04/15/gamestation-we-own-your-soul/1

Made me laugh that they snuck that in as an April fools jape. Although anyone who did notice and opted out of the "soul" clause got a voucher for £5.

 

[TheTim]

Not one bit, but thats just the lazy mofo that i am