EULA Hall of Shame

Below are links to information regarding the most recent inductees into the EULA Hall of Shame. Read and learn! You have been warned!

GOOGLE
MICROSOFT
YAHOO

Ah, the EULA! Source of much consternation to computer software users and way too much cash to crafty lawyers and the companies that they represent, the End User License Agreement has turned into a modern means of social engineering. Beware the EULA contract! “Contract?” you say? Yes, contract -- you've seen that box full of legal mumbo-jumbo that pops up when you use or install a program for the first time, yes? Do you understand the contract into which you entered when you clicked “I agree?”

Also known as software or user licenses, EULAs are notorious for containing sneaky clauses asserting ridiculous restrictions on the behavior of software users, giving empirical rights to the EULA writers. The purpose of this website is to alert computer users to some of the nefarious clauses found within EULAs, perhaps saving those hapless souls from untold grief and loss of personal freedom.

From www.bellevuelinux.org/eula.html we find the following: “Some EULAs provide the software developer or vendor with highly intrusive powers. For example, Microsoft EULAs state that they give the company the right to collect information about the user's system and its use and to supply this information to other organizations. They also state that they grant Microsoft the right to make changes to the user's computer without requesting permission. In addition, EULAs frequently have a clause that allows vendors to make updates (i.e., changes that benefit the vendor) to users' systems without asking or notifying the user.”

We need your help, because the above description is only the tip of the iceberg. If you know of a bad EULA, please let us know (in accordance with the terms found below), so that others around the world may benefit from your knowledge. Please be assured that your email communications with us are strictly private and confidential. In accordance with U.S. law, we do have an email retention policy. Our policy is to only retain emails for the time that it takes for them to be read and acted upon. We regularly delete and securely erase all email logs, and we never release email information to third parties, because, in accordance with our email policy, there’s nothing left to release!

We trust that this website will be of some benefit to you, and that you will recommend it to others.

EULA Hall of Shame EULA

The following constitutes the EULA Hall of Shame EULA
(End Users License Agreement).
Please read carefully!
1. By viewing, seeing, casting your eyes upon, accessing, thinking about, hearing about, or in any other way using your ocular, auditory, cranial or other sensory faculties or facilities to gain any knowledge of or information from the EULA Hall of Fame website (hereinafter known as EHOF) you agree to be bound in perpetuity and forever and ever amen by the terms and conditions of this EULA agreement, which constitutes a binding contract upon you without any legal resort, appeal, petition or redress of any kind, either known or which may become known in the future.
2. You agree that EHOF, along with its creators, initiators, employees, associates, heirs, assigns, architects, authors, relatives, entrepreneurs, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, cousins and other in-laws, founders, inventors, makers, originators, parents, patriarchs, builders, contributors, developers, pioneers, affiliates, allies, cohorts, colleagues, confederates, copartners, fellows, partners, chums, companions, comrades, cronies, fellows, mates, hirelings, jobholders, workers, hires, hired hands, and anyone else that EHOF and its creators, initiators, employees, associates, heirs, assigns, architects, authors, relatives, entrepreneurs, fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children, cousins and other in-laws, founders, inventors, makers, originators, parents, patriarchs, builders, contributors, developers, pioneers, affiliates, allies, cohorts, colleagues, confederates, copartners, fellows, partners, chums, companions, comrades, cronies, fellows, mates, hirelings, jobholders, workers, hires, and hired hands shall deem worthy shall be able to do anything whatsoever that they please, and, if you don’t like it, well then, that's just too bad for you.

SCROOGLE.org
SEARCH

Yeah, it's cheesy to include Google ads on this website, but, hey, we figure that as much as we rag on Google, they should pay us for the privilege. Hmmm, there's some interesting logic for you!

If you know of a EULA that should be inducted into the EULA Hall of Shame, PLEASE EMAIL US at the address found below. If you submit a EULA for inclusion, YOU MUST INCLUDE (1) the name of the company originating the EULA, (2) the name of the program, website or other device that incorporates the EULA, (3) a link to a website owned by the EULA originator that displays the EULA, OR the ORIGINAL FACTORY OEM floppy disc, CD, DVD or printed-on-paper document that contains the EULA. We only deal with original factory OEM products -- WE WILL NOT ACCEPT COPIES. If necessary, we will provide you with a land-location mailing address, and, when we are through with our analysis, your materials will be returned, AND, (4) your reasons why you dislike the EULA.
EMAILS THAT DO NOT CONFORM TO THE ABOVE REQUIREMENTS WILL BE IGNORED.

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If you feel that information found on this website has somehow wronged you or your company, please email us at the address found above. We take all such communications very seriously. Be advised, however, that nasty, threatening or otherwise abusive emails will be forwarded to our team of pitbull attorneys, who would love nothing more than to take a EULA lawsuit all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. You read eourd EULA, didn't you?
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The contents of this website are Copyright 2007 and following years by Dave Moore and the EULA Hall of Shame. This website is provided for informational purposes only, and is not intended to provide legal advice of any kind. Materials found on this website which are not the property of Dave Moore and the EULA Hall of Shame are the property of their respective owners, and are used and reproduced pursuant to the Fair Use and other applicable laws of the United States of America. See fairuse.stanford.edu for more information. This website went online May 19, 2007. Also, thanks to Chris Hansen for the cool font!

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