Listen To Actor Richard Dreyfuss Read The iTunes End User Agreement
End user license agreements and terms of service are almost universally too long and convoluted. Prior to a roundtable discussion on this dry but important topic, Academy Award winning actor Richard Dreyfuss added some humor read the iTunes end user licencing agreement worth one hell of an accent. Listen and laugh on cNet here.
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It’s scary that with every automatic update, there can be an update to the end user licensing agreement as well. So whilst your computer installs it automatically, you just need to tick a box and pretend you have read all of those numerous pages of legal speak again AND noticed the differences to the prior version. I say pretend because the latter cannot be achieved by the average end user. So basically, the updates are a way to easily sneak in code and contract clauses that the end user may not want on his computer. Technically, that would be equal to a mild version of a legal trojan, but the average end user wouldn’t know that. The best part from the Dreyfuss clips was “your responsibility”. Has he read out the whole end user license agreement or just parts of it?