Better read those online contracts and end user (EULA) agreements before clicking “accept.”
Our friends at CNET bring to us the story of an online game retailer which slipped the following clause into a sales contract:
“By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non-transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions.”
Good news, however, was that there was an opt-out provision. Better still, if you opted out, the seller saved $5 on the purchase.
According to their not-so-scientific study, 90% of buyers failed to opt out and now owe their immortal soul… to a video game retailer.
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