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Originally Posted by Fbone
Define "you" in respect to the laws of Washington State.
Define "third party" in respect to the laws of Washington State.
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One could quibble over exactly where the line between "you" (singular/dual/multiple, whatever) and "third party" (people who are not you singular/dual/multiple whatever) lies.
Frankly the language seems ambiguous and non-intuitive to the end-customer to whom the T&C applies (although most Amazon shopping accounts seem to be for a single individual rather than some sort of joint corporate shopping thing).
Smashwords may spell stuff out more explicitly on a one-to-one basis, and you could argue either way what Amazon really means with what they say but I rather doubt that "you" will really cover "and those close friends of 'yours' who load up 'your' purchased books" in a court of law.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I don't think Amazon's TOS is actually legal. I've never read it. I was never presented it for reading and I've never agreed to it. Yet I have eBooks from Amazon (free ones). So how can they enforce it when I have never actually agreed?
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Weren't deliberately-scare-tactic software EULAs and the like ruled less-than-validly-legally-constraining because nobody ever read or understood them?
ETA: and also because they were using ridiculous legally non-enforceable language as part of said scare tactics.