In Real Life

Those Awful ‘No Sue’ Clauses, In Plain English

The gist of many big company’s new “No Sue” clauses are that you can’t sue them, but beyond that, aarrggghh, there’s so much legal wish-wash it makes your head spin.


October 6, 2011
News

Gamers Opt Out Rescues Us From Lawsuit Prevention Clauses

With a supreme court decision earlier this year making it legal for companies to include do-not-sue clauses in their user agreements, the only recourse for customers of companies like Sony and Electronic Arts is to opt-out of the clause via written letter. Now there’s a website that does it for them.


October 31, 2007
Uncategorized

PSN User Agreement Gets Another Refinement

If you’ve agreed to the PlayStation Network end user licence agreement, you may want to catch the most recent update to the terms of service. You probably won’t find much in the way of objectionable changes to the latest revision—it’s largely made up of arse-covering statements that ensure you’ll never get a refund on something purchase through the PlayStation Store—but it’s recommended skimming for PlayStation 3 owners who are in between Lair sessions.

Some of the changes to note are Sony’s clarification on “offensive, hateful, or vulgar” content streamed or presented via the PSN. It’s up to SCEA’s discretion whether content that spews forth from users is deemed “racially, ethnically, religiously, or sexually offensive, libelous, defaming, threatening, bullying or stalking.” Further, the agreement touches on user generated spam, viruses, worms and third-party copyright infringement.

SCEA also extends the PlayStation Network user agreement to the PSP, most likely to protect themselves in the likely event of increased networking functionality on the portable.

The full list of changes is highlighted at the link below.

PLAYSTATION NETWORK TERMS OF SERVICE AND USER AGREEMENT [PlayStation.com]