' Wrote:That's called Duress, I don't know how this would fall under that term. Unless EA and Sony took a baseball bat to your kneecaps before you signed on the dotted line.
I don't mean duress. That was a poor example.
I mean, using Xbox games as an example, by the stage you see the contract you have already purchased the game, you have already opened it (at which stage you cannot return it without a barge-load of hassle because the seal is broken) and you have already run their software.
Also, this is a legal document which makes no provisions for a signature, counter-signature, witness, age of the person agreeing to the contract...or well...anything. Just some abstract notion that you -have- read it and -have- agreed to it. If you don't agree to it you cannot use the software/service you have already paid for.
I'd say that is a pretty exploitative arrangement in which to present a legal contract. Particularly if that contract now involves surrendering certain legal rights and is not sufficiently clear.
