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Don't Like EULAs? Get Your Cat To Agree To Them

Posted by timothy on from the my-cat-toy-is-a-model-m dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Anne Loucks built a device which, when her cat steps on it, can click the 'I Agree' button of a EULA. Who knows what the lawyers will make of this sort of madness. Can a cat make a legal agreement? Does it need to be of legal age? She lures the cat onto the device, and the cat steps on it of its own free will. Anyway, folks who hate EULAs now have another tool to make the lawyers freak out."

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  1. Let Mark Zuckerberg sign your EULA by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Since he seems to want to own everything that ever was, and ever will be, in the Internet, he might as well have your bloody EULA as well.

    It's real easy, just set a fake email account with one of the many aliases that Mark Zuckerberg is known to use, and sign it with that. Note, this list is not exhaustive:

    • Mark Bigboote
    • Mark O'Connor
    • Mark Smallberries
    • Mark Parker
    • Mark Yaya
    • Mark ...
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  2. IMHO by w0mprat · · Score: 0, Troll

    IANAL

    YANAL

    GTFO

    If a minor or invalid accepts a EULA doesn't the legal responsibility fall to the legal guardian? Thus applies to pets?

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  3. Re:Better solution by raddan · · Score: 0, Troll

    Heh... I guess that explains our Help Desk.