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Do you read the Terms and Conditions when downloading software?

  • 11-06-2012 03:42PM
    #1
    af_thefragile
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,161 ✭✭✭


    Yes I was watching the South Park episode HumancentiPad the other day and was wondering how many of you actually read the Terms and Conditions before hitting agree when installing a software on our computer?

    I know I never bother reading those things. So what's the point of having a Terms and Conditions statements when no one bothers to read them? And what's the worst that could happen when you click agree without reading the TnC statement for a software?

    Did you read the Terms and Conditions? 52 votes

    Yes, I am a cautious and sensible person.
    0% 0 votes
    No, I have sold my soul to Apple.
    11% 6 votes
    Atari Jaguar, I Agree.
    88% 46 votes


Comments

  • #2
    Rothko
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,998 ✭✭✭✭Rothko


    Never


  • #3
    Mr Magners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    As if!!


  • #4
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    no one does.


  • #5
    petes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,382 ✭✭✭petes


    Do I fcuk!!


  • #6
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Suas11 wrote: »
    Never
    Mr Magners wrote: »
    As if!!
    FatherLen wrote: »
    no one does.
    Insurgent wrote: »
    Do I fcuk!!

    Can I put ye down for 4 "No's" :p


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  • #7
    Brendog
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,976 ✭✭✭Brendog


    Of course I do! Nothing like a reading a good oul Terms and conditions.

    Gives me an unbelievable buzz. Something similar to cocaine











    .....I assume.


  • #8
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    I remember when we got our 1st PC years ago my father made me read all the T&C for Wolf3D cause he didnt trust anything being installed :pac:

    Since then though, no


  • #9
    shedweller
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,023 ✭✭✭shedweller


    More to the point, has anybody read them and then decided against using the software, based on what they read?


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yes, i usually print them off, get em laminated and file them under "bed time reading"


  • #11
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 25,909 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I read through the one for iTunes and decided against installing it because it said I wasn't allowed to use it in the production of nuclear weapons.


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  • #12
    CruelCoin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,463 ✭✭✭CruelCoin


    I despise all apple products as the useless tat they are,

    But no, i don't read the terms. Couldn't be bothered. The time it would take to read them and understand them thoroughly would far outweigh the enjoyment you'd get from using the software in question.


  • #13
    John Doe1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭John Doe1


    I didn't do it when I installed football manager, i now only possess one testicle:(


  • #14
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,464 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    John Doe1 wrote: »
    I didn't do it when I installed football manager, i now only possess one testicle:(

    You can download a patch for that.


  • #15
    eth0
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,632 ✭✭✭eth0


    No and I don't actually agree with them either although I might click that button to make it go out the way


  • #16
    Sarky
    Closed Accounts Posts: 31,967 ✭✭✭✭Sarky


    They carry about as much weight as a ghost's fart in a force ten gale, so no. I don't bother with them.


  • #17
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    Wasn't there software for some game a few years back that included a term like 'they now own your soul' that they put in as a joke as no one ever reads t&c's? They wanted to see how long it would take before it was spotted.


  • #18
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,234 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I read them for everything I download or apply for just so that I am fully awarLloyd all their get out clauses and what I am entitled to in the event something goes wrong with the software or whatever it is... Oh hang on I just made that up, sorry about that. No I don't read them because I can't actually read. I'm responding to this thread using voice recog software.


  • #19
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    For better or worse.
    I do.


    What sick baxtard thought up those T&Cs?!


  • #20
    Willbbz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 894 ✭✭✭Willbbz


    Yes and you should too.

    I run a web hosting service and slipped in the privacy policy that we own our customers souls

    Source


  • #21
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    If I am paying for it, certainly so!
    Sometimes the free stuff too.
    Especially with the likes of Gmail for example.
    From their terms and conditions:
    *********************************
    Your Content in our Services

    Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

    When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content.
    ********************************

    There you go!

    Intellectual copyrighted pics or writing passing through gmail - be aware!


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  • #22
    Mr Magners
    Closed Accounts Posts: 817 ✭✭✭Mr Magners


    ^^^
    Just curious but did you still click "Agree" even after reading that.

    I suspect the vast majority of people using Googles services aren't communicating anything with which Google are going to make a fortune!


  • #23
    krudler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,788 ✭✭✭✭krudler


    jack presley wrote: »
    Wasn't there software for some game a few years back that included a term like 'they now own your soul' that they put in as a joke as no one ever reads t&c's? They wanted to see how long it would take before it was spotted.

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/15/online-shoppers-unknowingly-sold-souls/?test=latestnews


  • #24
    Northern Monkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,596 ✭✭✭Northern Monkey


    See here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?threadid=2056651336


  • #25
    Peetrik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭Peetrik


    I'd say they would be much more concerned that I had downloaded the software for free than that I hadn't read the T&Cs.


  • #26
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Nah, I can't afford to hire a lawyer to review this lengthy gobbledygook every time I use/install/update something.

    ESPECIALLY RELATING TO THE AFOREMENTIONED SECTIONS WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS THAT SEEM TO GO ON FOREVER AND YET SAY ALMOST (OR NEARLY ALMOST, OR ANYTHING THAT COULD OTHERWISE BE INTERPRETED AS ALMOST) NOTHING WITH REGARD TO MATTERS APPLICABLE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LAY PERSON WHO MAY, OR MAY NOT, HAVE ALL DAY TO SIT READING UNINTELLIGIBLE LEGAL WAFFLE IN ORDER TO USE YOUR WONDERFUL FONT IN A BIRTHDAY CARD OR OTHER BIRTHDAY RELATED DOCUMENTS.


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