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Originally Posted by CaelThunderwing
thers nothing any of us can do to stop you from violating the agreement between you and Amazon, (the one when you purchased the KSO)
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IMHO:
There was no such agreement. Nothing was printed on the package; nothing was said by the salespeople; no contract was handed to me at the checkout counter, requiring my signature. I bought the product without agreeing to anything. Inside the sealed package, in the owner's manual, is language stating that when I actually use the product I just bought, I'm now agreeing to a bunch of terms, which aren't even stated in the owner's manual; I'm simply directed to a web site, where the terms are stated. Note that since this "agreement" exists only on their web site - not on paper - Amazon can simply change it at any time. They might even have changed it between the time I bought the product and the time I opened it. The bottom line seems to be: buy the product, take it home, upack it, and then we'll tell you what you have to agree to in order to use it; if you don't like the terms, your recourse is to try to get your money back from whoever sold it to you.
This is pure BS.
There's a lot of disagreement in the world today about intellectual property rights. Companies like Amazon are trying to just invent new laws and bluff people into accepting them as accomplished fact. Sometimes they succeed, for a while, by influencing politicians, or by getting in front of a judge who doesn't understand the technology. But those successes will be temporary. Eventually, this line will hold: an agreement that wasn't spelled out in advance isn't binding.