Report poll How many of you read EULA's (End user license agreement)?

Poll started by lodle with 1,987 votes and 62 comments. Browse the poll archive.

 2%

I read them word for word (31 votes)

 16%

I skim over them (323 votes)

 68%

I just hit accept as fast as i can (1348 votes)

 4%

Theres a EULA? (85 votes)

 10%

EULA? (200 votes)

Comments  (0 - 50 of 62)
.eXeC!
.eXeC! Oct 29 2009, 5:56am says:

Like anyone reads THOOOSE things.

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pielikey
pielikey Oct 29 2009, 6:09am says:

I love how there are literally zero votes for "read word for word"

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lodle
lodle Oct 29 2009, 6:10am replied: Online

early days yet (only 12 votes)

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Feillyne
Feillyne Oct 29 2009, 6:30am replied:

LOL. :-) 0%... this poll results should be shown to people creating EULAs. Curious to know if they ever think of making them interesting. = |

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Lucifer
Lucifer Oct 30 2009, 7:43pm replied:

Created? EULA's are summoned from the pits of hell.

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m4x0r
m4x0r Oct 29 2009, 12:23pm replied:

Anyone who says they do is lying anyway.

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Herr_Alien
Herr_Alien Oct 30 2009, 1:51am replied: Online

Not quite so. I usually go quickly through them, except when a level editor / SDK is invovled. In such cases, after skimming through them, I reserve some time in the following days to read it word for word.

Now not all licenses should be read word for word; in 99.9% cases there's really no need for that.
However, there are some licenses that should be read entirely: the GPL, LGPL and Creative licenses. After reading them and trying to understand their meaning, you will not make any confusions between Open Source, GPL licensed and free (as in 0 USD/EUR price).

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ghostings
ghostings Oct 30 2009, 3:57pm replied:

Talk about the diligence of a wolf hunting deer.

Looks like word for word has 2%

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Varsity
Varsity Oct 29 2009, 6:22am says:

I remember reading a lot of the Windows Live EULA because it was actually written in a very approachable style. Frontloading the useful information was helpful too.

Never bothered with any others.

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hushpuppy
hushpuppy Oct 29 2009, 6:37am says:

Hurrrm is the EULA that wall of text before i login in WoW?

Really if someone asked what the first word was of that document i dont think i could answer.

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sting2death
sting2death Oct 29 2009, 6:42am says:

lol still a zero for the "I read them word for word" =D

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Joe_Shmoe
Joe_Shmoe Oct 29 2009, 7:30am says:

Failblog.org

Hows that for interesting Feillyne?

I think it would be wise to know what your agreeing to exactly before just accepting lol, never know whats in the fine print =]

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ngs616
ngs616 Oct 29 2009, 8:16am replied:

Hahaha nice one Joe. Thats great

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Feillyne
Feillyne Oct 29 2009, 10:25am replied:

Yup, hehe, they're a bit paranoid. :-D

Well, interesting EULAs should be very short and to the point, i.e. extremely relevant.

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Joe_Shmoe
Joe_Shmoe Oct 29 2009, 11:03am replied:

Agreed, they should maybe make it like a short video clip like what they use to put on the DVD's for antipiracy, create a lil video of what NOT to do... Like this one =]

Youtube.com

Gosh i loved this show

+5 votes     reply to comment
Jyffeh
Jyffeh Oct 29 2009, 7:21pm replied:

They kinda stole that from Maddox, but it's still pretty funny.

+4 votes     reply to comment
korge
korge Oct 29 2009, 8:54am says:

Idk why they add EULA's because we cannot be held responsible for a "contract"

+1 vote     reply to comment
Gosthy
Gosthy Oct 29 2009, 9:33am says:

They should make the EULAs into a few sentences like: "Don't upload any of the files anywhere. Don't say that you made them." or whatever.

+8 votes     reply to comment
Elementalist
Elementalist Oct 29 2009, 9:59am says:

I skim over all the ones I accept. Still made some mistakes, but a few times I denied because it had some unfavorable terms.

+4 votes     reply to comment
Sensu.Okami
Sensu.Okami Oct 29 2009, 10:18am says:

I just look for misspellings....if there are any, it probably not a good program

+6 votes     reply to comment
DuckSauce
DuckSauce Oct 29 2009, 10:28am says:

I just hit accept most of the time, I would read them if it wasn't hundreds of lines of something normal people don't need to know.

Could be potentially bad, but I mostly use stuff plenty other people have already used, not 100% safe but better then downloading and installing 100% fresh software.

+9 votes     reply to comment
destroy3r3
destroy3r3 Oct 29 2009, 10:42am says:

EULA can be a real pain in the a**! There are people who had problems with their products because of it...

+5 votes     reply to comment
DedMustDie
DedMustDie Oct 29 2009, 11:28am says:

I just agree as soon as possible. Why? Nobody cares about suck things in Ukraine ;p Piracy all the way!

+8 votes     reply to comment
korge
korge Oct 29 2009, 12:12pm replied:

lmao lol

+5 votes     reply to comment
DedMustDie
DedMustDie Oct 29 2009, 1:05pm replied:

Oops... just noticed my mistake, please sorry but it had to be "such things" not "suck things" lol.

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Xyrom
Xyrom Oct 29 2009, 12:26pm says:

i read mod ones occasionally mostly because they have some funny ones sometimes

+7 votes     reply to comment
TAU!
TAU! Oct 29 2009, 3:21pm says:

The first and only time I read through the EULA (Like, half of the first paragraph) was when Dad installed Half-Life 1.

+6 votes     reply to comment
FootBallHead
FootBallHead Oct 29 2009, 3:53pm says:

I generally skim through all the documents just incase there is something there that sticks out or something. Once in a while, I read them word for word, but soon get bored.

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infl1ct1on
infl1ct1on Oct 29 2009, 4:13pm says:

It really depends, but I usually skim over it, but once again it depends what it is XD.

+4 votes     reply to comment
AnhNhan
AnhNhan Oct 29 2009, 4:27pm says:

would be illegal in germany. you can't "put unexspected things" in such stuff. so i don't need bother reading because it'll be all the same what you can out in them and is left ;-)

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Feillyne
Feillyne Oct 29 2009, 7:23pm replied:

You can consider yourselves very lucky then. :-)

Hmm, but isn't it forbidden in other countries either to put 'unexpected things' in EULAs?

+3 votes     reply to comment
Nebcake
Nebcake Oct 29 2009, 5:20pm says:

I just read the first line, because reading another 300 lines is just too much for me.

+5 votes     reply to comment
micom1318
micom1318 Oct 29 2009, 5:54pm says:

I usually skim the pages since, I REALLY don't want to end up paying for ANYTHING other than the product I bought or signed up for

+3 votes     reply to comment
sthap
sthap Oct 29 2009, 6:10pm says:

You should at least skim over them. Like some things that you sign up to can give away your personal details to third party peoples. Also there is a whole lot of copy right stuff that can get you into alot of shit. And 'sorry, i did not know' doesnt hold up in court.

+4 votes     reply to comment
Davkilla101
Davkilla101 Oct 29 2009, 6:39pm says:

I just skim over those things

+4 votes     reply to comment
Lt.SnoWolf
Lt.SnoWolf Oct 29 2009, 9:25pm says:

Who invented EULAs anyway? Stupid idea when 99% of people aint going to read em. Lol. Still its a hard choice for me here i read ONE. And skimmed like 50.

+4 votes     reply to comment
lilernie6
lilernie6 Oct 29 2009, 11:05pm says:

no one reads them whats the point all of the EULAs say the same exact thing

+4 votes     reply to comment
_Fungus
_Fungus Oct 30 2009, 12:43am says:

Hitting "accept" as soon as possible since 1992.

+6 votes     reply to comment
medve_a_maci
medve_a_maci Oct 30 2009, 1:03am says:

there is a long forgotten legend about a man who read the winxp eula...

+8 votes     reply to comment
master_oli-p
master_oli-p Oct 30 2009, 2:38am replied:

He is still doing it now...

+8 votes     reply to comment
Ennui
Ennui Oct 30 2009, 4:15am says:

I usually skip 'em, but if I like the dev I might skim it a little to see if they put anything amusing in there.

+5 votes     reply to comment
Tharapita
Tharapita Oct 30 2009, 8:31am says:

Read one, read them all.

+3 votes     reply to comment
DedMustDie
DedMustDie Oct 30 2009, 9:34am says:

I've commented the poll earlier but I've a simple question now - how do you make animated avatars?

+4 votes     reply to comment
Karriz
Karriz Oct 30 2009, 3:44pm replied:

Use animated gif as an avatar.

+4 votes     reply to comment
Feillyne
Feillyne Oct 30 2009, 4:26pm replied:

Easy GIF Animator.

+4 votes     reply to comment
DedMustDie
DedMustDie Oct 30 2009, 5:03pm replied:

Thanx

+4 votes     reply to comment
Smonocco
Smonocco Oct 30 2009, 4:45pm says:

I don't usually read them unless i am extremely bored.

+3 votes     reply to comment
nopushbutton
nopushbutton Oct 30 2009, 5:38pm says:

it's kind of scary that devs could basically put anything they wanted in there and have it go unnoticed... there ought to be some sort of length limit on the things, hehe

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BurroDiablo
BurroDiablo Oct 30 2009, 5:55pm says:

I've read a few out of sheer boredom and to make sure I wasn't signing my life away. Mostly though, I click accept as fast as I can...

+4 votes     reply to comment
NoobyDood
NoobyDood Oct 30 2009, 7:48pm says:

I don't think anybody reads them, they are boring and a waste of time

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