I wonder how likely the whole "people almost never read EULAs when they play video games, and these companies know that and were pretty much counting on it in order to sneak these things in" factor would play into it, if at all. After all, it's not like Sony or EA were shouting from the rooftops beforehand that they were adding this crap in, and it apparently only came to light due to some people, well, actually taking the time to read the things. And most people, i.e. the ones who don't read gaming blogs/news sites, will still almost assuredly be unaware of it and will just click through it as quickly as possible (which counts as "accepting" it, of course) just to get their PSN or Origin working again, since otherwise they wouldn't be able to use it at all.
(Generally speaking, my personal opinion is that EULAs are, at best, completely useless anyway. Even when they're not being used in a scuzzy way like this. But that's a rant for another time.)
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Date: 2011-09-25 08:37 am (UTC)From:(Generally speaking, my personal opinion is that EULAs are, at best, completely useless anyway. Even when they're not being used in a scuzzy way like this. But that's a rant for another time.)