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It Pays To Read License Agreements (7 Years Later)
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KynloStephen66515:
Back in 2005, one lucky PC Pitstop customer won $1,000 by simply reading our End-User License Agreement (EULA) We temporarily added a clause to our EULA offering money to anyone who contacted us, but it took five months and more than 3,000 sales before the first person – dropped us a line asking about the clause.
7 years later — our experiment continues to garner attention in articles detailing the dangers of unread EULAs.
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barney:
Hm-m-m ... I've seen that discussion a few different places. The automatic assumption is that if no one applied for the largess, no one read the EULA. That is a false assumption. I've run across a few of those in the past. Not all monetary, but promising some supposedly tempting reward if ya responded. It was never worth my time to respond.
Hey, you'll give me a thousand bucks if I tell you I read your EULA? Yeah. Right! I believe that, I really do :o. And I'm gonna jump right on it. As soon as I have time. Maybe next decade.
Gambling on human greed is supposed to be a safe bet, but experience dictates that we're not all as greedy as the gamblers would, or would have us, believe. Between a [personally observed] diminution of that greed level, an ignored degree of disbelief, and a convenience/inconvenience/time element, I cannot buy this particular methodology as a valid test. Too many unknown - unknowable, in fact - variables. The assumptions made are statistically unwarranted based upon the test performed. All it's good for is an argument in a bar somewhere :beerchug:.
TaoPhoenix:
I dunno, if it flatly said "read this and earn $1000" I'd do it. I'm the kind of guy who reads the introductions to books and sometimes doesn't even read the book.
One problem is that there are a lot of materials out there that read "for a chance to win $1000", and THAT is not worth the time.
Cloq:
One problem is that there are a lot of materials out there that read "for a chance to win $1000", and THAT is not worth the time.
-TaoPhoenix (June 17, 2012, 05:23 PM)
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*ahem* May I interest you with an email that may contain the winning number for the UK lottery for 10,000,000 Euro!? Surely the email would be worth the time... you may already be a winner!
:D
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