Do you read the Terms and Conditions when downloading software?

af_thefragile

Yes I was watching the South Park episode HumancentiPad the other day and was wondering how many of you actually read the Terms and Conditions before hitting agree when installing a software on our computer?

I know I never bother reading those things. So what's the point of having a Terms and Conditions statements when no one bothers to read them? And what's the worst that could happen when you click agree without reading the TnC statement for a software?

Rothko

Never

Mr Magners

As if!!

FatherLen

no one does.

petes

Do I fcuk!!

kfallon

Suas11 wrote: »

Never

Mr Magners wrote: »

As if!!

FatherLen wrote: »

no one does.

Insurgent wrote: »

Do I fcuk!!

Can I put ye down for 4 "No's"

Brendog

Of course I do! Nothing like a reading a good oul Terms and conditions.

Gives me an unbelievable buzz. Something similar to cocaine











.....I assume.

Professey Chin

I remember when we got our 1st PC years ago my father made me read all the T&C for Wolf3D cause he didnt trust anything being installed :pac:

Since then though, no

shedweller

More to the point, has anybody read them and then decided against using the software, based on what they read?

Yes, i usually print them off, get em laminated and file them under "bed time reading"

I read through the one for iTunes and decided against installing it because it said I wasn't allowed to use it in the production of nuclear weapons.

CruelCoin

I despise all apple products as the useless tat they are,

But no, i don't read the terms. Couldn't be bothered. The time it would take to read them and understand them thoroughly would far outweigh the enjoyment you'd get from using the software in question.

John Doe1

I didn't do it when I installed football manager, i now only possess one testicle:(

John Doe1

John Doe1 wrote: »

I didn't do it when I installed football manager, i now only possess one testicle:(

You can download a patch for that.

eth0

No and I don't actually agree with them either although I might click that button to make it go out the way

Sarky

They carry about as much weight as a ghost's fart in a force ten gale, so no. I don't bother with them.

jack presley

Wasn't there software for some game a few years back that included a term like 'they now own your soul' that they put in as a joke as no one ever reads t&c's? They wanted to see how long it would take before it was spotted.

Cee-Jay-Cee

I read them for everything I download or apply for just so that I am fully awarLloyd all their get out clauses and what I am entitled to in the event something goes wrong with the software or whatever it is... Oh hang on I just made that up, sorry about that. No I don't read them because I can't actually read. I'm responding to this thread using voice recog software.

frozenfrozen

For better or worse.
I do.


What sick baxtard thought up those T&Cs?!

Willbbz

Yes and you should too.

I run a web hosting service and slipped in the privacy policy that we own our customers souls

Source

Biggins

If I am paying for it, certainly so!
Sometimes the free stuff too.
Especially with the likes of Gmail for example.
From their terms and conditions:

*********************************
Your Content in our Services

Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
********************************

There you go!

Intellectual copyrighted pics or writing passing through gmail - be aware!

Mr Magners

^^^
Just curious but did you still click "Agree" even after reading that.

I suspect the vast majority of people using Googles services aren't communicating anything with which Google are going to make a fortune!

krudler

jack presley wrote: »

Wasn't there software for some game a few years back that included a term like 'they now own your soul' that they put in as a joke as no one ever reads t&c's? They wanted to see how long it would take before it was spotted.

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/?test=latestnews

Northern Monkey

See here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056651336

Peetrik

I'd say they would be much more concerned that I had downloaded the software for free than that I hadn't read the T&Cs.

DonkeyStyle \o/

Nah, I can't afford to hire a lawyer to review this lengthy gobbledygook every time I use/install/update something.

ESPECIALLY RELATING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED SECTIONS WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS THAT SEEM TO GO ON FOREVER AND YET SAY ALMOST (OR NEARLY ALMOST, OR ANYTHING THAT COULD OTHERWISE BE INTERPRETED AS ALMOST) NOTHING WITH REGARD TO MATTERS APPLICABLE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAY PERSON WHO MAY, OR MAY NOT, HAVE ALL DAY TO SIT READING UNINTELLIGIBLE LEGAL WAFFLE IN ORDER TO USE YOUR WONDERFUL FONT IN A BIRTHDAY CARD OR OTHER BIRTHDAY RELATED DOCUMENTS.