• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    First Roku did a quick force TOS change before a beach disclosure, now Blizzard is mysteriously forcing a change to their TOS. I have no idea what’s coming next. Seems like it’s going to become part of the breach playbook to minimize financial loss. Maybe there will be a law against it in… oh…15 years?

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      So i’m not a lawyer but isn’t there a law for unconsciability, When a contract is so one-sided, it’s obvious that me the signer has absolutely no rights.The entire contract is voided.

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        EULAs and TOSes are as legally binding as a secondhand piece of toiletpaper with a contract written in shit. Almost every single one will be thrown out in court. The problem is getting to that point in the first place, and incurring the (time, effort & money) costs while enduring. Most common people can’t afford that, which the companies know, so they keep making unenforceable EULAs.

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          That is true in US. In EU litigations cost are way lower and a single person could sue, win and not be financially broken.

          Problem is only that in any case what you pay for a lawyer is more than you win, so it make no sense to sue in any case.

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            Almost like the Legal system is intentionally designed such that the wealthy are the only ones with any actual access.

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          The signer gets the service because they paid for it. Mostly these are changed after people already bought the stuff.

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      Let me laugh if Blizzard’s TOS change is because of a security breach they haven’t disclosed yet.

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      Roku wasn’t breached. They reported that a bunch of people who had reused passwords from other breached sites were compromised.

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        So you have all users sign a new TOS to force a password change? I’m not seeing the connection.

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          The TOS had nothing to do with having announced that some peoples’ accounts had been compromised due to password reuse from other hacked sites. People just started conspiracy theoryin’

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      my vizio has been stuck on a tos update acceptance screen since about the time of the recent roku shit. i haven’t had the time to deal with it, so it’s just been turned off.