More on Shrink-wrap Contracts

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Legally enforceable? Discuss in the comments…

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Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.

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  • http://srynas.blogspot.com/ Steve R.

    Courtesy of Miles Barnett who posted this link at TechDirt” <a href=”http://www.boingboing.net/2007/01/25/reas… – the anti-EULA

  • http://www.aheram.com Jayel Aheram

    I questioned the validity of EULAs a few months ago and Jeffrey Tucker of the Mises Blog responded and got quite a bit of responses regarding the matter.

    I do not think it should be legally enforceable. As for whether or not it can be is an entirely different matter. The State's capacity for violent coercion knows no bounds; in the order of things, enforcement of EULAs are a trivial matter to them.

  • http://www.aheram.com Jayel Aheram

    I questioned the validity of EULAs a few months ago and Jeffrey Tucker of the Mises Blog responded and got quite a bit of responses regarding the matter.

    I do not think it should be legally enforceable. As for whether or not it can be is an entirely different matter. The State's capacity for violent coercion knows no bounds; in the order of things, enforcement of EULAs are a trivial matter to them.

  • http://aheram.com Jayel Aheram

    I questioned the validity of EULAs a few months ago and Jeffrey Tucker of the Mises Blog responded and got quite a bit of responses regarding the matter.

    I do not think it should be legally enforceable. As for whether or not it can be is an entirely different matter. The State's capacity for violent coercion knows no bounds; in the order of things, enforcement of EULAs are a trivial matter to them.

  • http://aheram.com/blog/moblog/the-validity-of-end-user-license-agreements-redux/ The Validity of End User License Agreements Redux » Jayel Aheram

    [...] Content I have been reading The Technology Liberation Front (libertarians critiquing developments in the fields of the internet and technology) and came across Tim Lee’s repost of the popular webcomic XKCD regarding End-User License Agreements (EULA) with a question, “Legally enforceable?” [...]

  • http://community.mises.org/copyfascism/the-validity-of-end-user-license-agreements-redux/ The validity of end-user license agreements redux | Copyfascism Watch

    [...] I have been reading The Technology Liberation Front (libertarians critiquing developments in the fields of the internet and technology) and came across Tim Lee’s repost of the popular webcomic XKCD regarding End-User License Agreements (EULA) with a question, “Legally enforceable?” [...]

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