| stopstopp said: If you are being ignorant enough to agree to a Terms of Agreement then defend breaking it and those who purposely go break it and pirate be my guest. A terms of agreement could say I own your soul and if you click agree you can't go and say that's not true, even though you agreed to it. Your "consumer rights" means nothing if you agree to it. |
Thranx covered this but i would like to add to it and reinforce it. Many times EULAs and ToS agreements have illegal stipulations. In those cases either part or all of the EULA/ToS is completely nullified. In the case of the former it can get very bad as it gives all past customers completely free reign to do whatever they want. This is why you often don't see the court cases challenging them go very far. Few companies want to risk a worst case scenario that would truly fuck them hard in the backdoor sans lube.
As an example, if the ToS were to say "By using this product you agree to do contract work for us at any time we desire for no compensation" then that would never hold up. You could try to enforce it, but the judge would quickly dismiss the case and laugh at you. In doing this the judge could also throw out legal parts such as you can't run third party cheat programs while playing online or something similar. This would be unlikely, but if the judge was in a bad mood, or the ToS were particularly assanine the option is there.
