Ryumaou

Making the impossible merely improbable since 1968

Read the EULA!

I'm sure most of my loyal readers have already seen this, but...
Just in case you don't read Slashdot as compulsively as I do, they recently ran a story, or link to a story on PCPitStop, about a guy who got $1000 for reading the End User License Agreement (EULA) for a little piece of software he installed. I have to confess, I hardly ever read the damn things myself, since they're mainly boilerplate legal agreements, but maybe I should start! The folks who made this particular piece of software included instructions for claiming a $1000 "consideration" for actually reading their EULA. Pretty cool. And, almost worth reading those long, boring EULAs everyone has. Almost...