Price of Ignoring ToS Details: Your Soul

[Silver Knight]

Illustrating how few people pay attention to the terms and conditions of anything, UK retailer GameStation— as part of an April Fool's gag—added a line to the fine print of its website that granted the souls of agreeing customers to the merchant.

The "Immortal Soul Clause," as detailed by Bit-Tech, was slipped into a GameStation online sale promotion. 88.0 percent of the website visitors did not notice the clause and effectively signed away rights to an immaterial part of themselves (that may or may not exist).

Those who did notice the clause, and opted out, were awarded a £5 gift voucher. For its part, GameStation said that it would not enforce the clause and plans to issue nullifications via email to those who were duped. All in all, 7,500 customers reportedly signed away their souls.

[Lucidius]

lol'd.

I never read TOS sadly, it's just, way too tl;dr and it's always in legal speak.

IF it was 3-4 paragraphs or some silly ness, I wouldn't mind in most cases but I don't feel lik spending an hour reading legal jabber, just to shoot a friend in the face.

[Locke]

I nearly never read those, oh god.

[Bl★ck Star]

lol'd.

I never read TOS sadly, it's just, way too tl;dr and it's always in legal speak.

IF it was 3-4 paragraphs or some silly ness, I wouldn't mind in most cases but I don't feel lik spending an hour reading legal jabber, just to shoot a friend in the face.

Same.

[Chaos]

Reading ToS on every game would waste a lot of your life. I'm surprised nobody scams people through it.