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Old 05-11-2011, 03:20 PM   #135
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Originally Posted by DuskyRose View Post
I disagree. There's a huge difference between reading a 66 page contract and a couple of sentences of information about what you're doing on your computer.

I do skim the contract, but don't fully read it. But it's a contract and not an operator's manual. I skim and agree so I can use the program, although I know I should read all of it. In that case, if I agree to something I didn't mean too, my bad.
Are you kidding? I'd dare say that contracts are even more important than an operating manual. Neglecting to read the operating manual for my toaster will just result in me making poor toast. Neglecting to read a contract could result in jail time, or fines, or all manner of nastiness that you would have to be a lawyer to truly understand.

You can't sign over your rights in an operating manual. You can't make legally binding agreements from within an operating manual.

The point I'm getting at is people here are yelling at this guy for not reading a popup warning, yet we completely ignore MUCH more important things all the time. If you say reading a popup warning is the "bare minimum" a person should do as a user of a program, well then reading that FULL 66 page contract seems the bare minimum a user should be REQUIRED to do to use iTunes. You could be signing over your soul and first born child, I'd imagine that is pretty important -- yet you yourself admitted you don't fully read it.

I don't either.

I just think that is a funny double standard that most of us here are guilty of. The same people who point at a guy for not reading a popup are likely the people who skim and skip through contracts and terms of service, thinking to themselves "Ugh, I'm not going to read all that crap!".
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