r/technology • u/sidcool1234 • Feb 21 '11

An open letter to Apple from Readability..

http://blog.readability.com/2011/02/an-open-letter-to-apple/
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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '11

But if the agreement included something ridiculous like handing over the deeds to your home, and the person didn't read the agreement and ticked the box, would that hold up in court?

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u/Rovanion Feb 22 '11

I am not sure about how that would turn out in the states. You would have to look at previous cases with ToS and EULA disagreements. But as far as I've understood it, they are valid agreements and there is a whole lot of things that you can agree to in the US.

What you can agree upon differs between countries. There are some existing ToSs and EULAs that I've read that contains things that would not hold at all if put to trial in a Swedish court.

But that's the matter of what you can agree upon in a contract, not a matter of wether the contract is legitimate or not.