Journal ThePhilips's Journal: EULAs reaches new low 1
As was posted on BoingBoing (originally on BoingBoing Gadgets by John Brownlee):
[...] watching Sleeping Beauty on Blu-Ray requires that you accede to over 120 pages of legal garbage in various EULAs before you can start the movie.
And Cory Doctorow has a bit more to add on other EULA abuses from Disney:
Disney has a sickness when it comes to abusive EULAs and contracts. I once had to cancel a speech at Imagineering because the legal department wanted me to sign something saying that I'd never use the word "Disney" in print again without permission. The Laugh Factory attraction at Disney World's Tomorrowland had a ridiculous EULA on a sign (you agreed to the terms by passing under the sign) (!) in which you promised that any jokes you suggested were your own and that you would indemnify Disney from any copyright suits arising from the telling of the jokes (the sign was not a joke). As though eight year olds can form contracts (they can't), by standing under signs (they can't), and as though most jokes people tell are original (they aren't).
What's next? Jokes with EULAs requiring you to laugh? And hearing the joke means that you agreed to EULA automatically?
no, you don't need to read 120 pages of EULA (Score:3, Informative)
To watch Sleeping Beauty on BluRay.
You only need to do so to access the online content.
I never allow my BluRay player to access the internet, so this EULA doesn't come up for me.
Please stop exaggerating, it doesn't help prove your point.