Comment on The HELLDIVERS™^©®^³ 2 EULA is a URL
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 2 years ago
Is an EULA presented this way considered binding? That seems really exploitable, like making people click hundreds of links to get to the real EULA so they don’t actually read it.
It’s pretty ridiculous.
What happens if you go there and Sony have moved their EULA page and it just 404s? Does that mean there is no EULA at all and you can play without terms? Doubt Sony woild see it that way lol.
EULA should be displayed within the same context it is accepted.
Imagine getting a 404 or 500 error. Then archiving that on archive.org (and screenshot that dialog on steam) and accept the terms. If there’s any problem and they say you violated the EULA, point them to the terms you accepted.
making people click hundreds of links to get to the real EULA
This could be turned into a game with some kind of narrative like a Choose-Your-Own-E.U.L.Adventure. Players might try to exploit it though, so there should probably be some terms they have to agree to first.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 2 years ago
many “normal” EULA’s aren’t really binding, if you get down to it.
Also. Relevant XKCD
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Breadhax0r@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Tell that to the people who just got denied the ability to sue over an Uber crash because their daughter agreed to the Uber eats eula
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Technically that’s still on appeal, and tbh I do expect it to get overturned somewhere.
zerosignal@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Or the family of the person who died at Disney and can’t sue because they did a free trial of Disney+
fluckx@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That was something Disney Lawyers claimed, but was never actually agreed/enforced.
So it doesn’t actually hold any weight until a court actually rules on it.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 years ago
Disney waved their right to arbitration after backlash. Uber might just do the same, or get sued by the government for the EULA itself.