Microsoft Changes License Agreement to Avoid Class Actions
Company's customers give up their right to sue and agree to binding arbitration in all disputes flies in the face of the 14th Ammendment.
Microsoft, never shy about trumpeting its latest innovations whether real or just vaporware, has quietly changed its U.S. end user license agreement to forbid its customers from suing or joining in class action suits against the company.
The 14th Amendment guarantees everyone the right of due process, but when it's consumers against mighty corporations, that doesn't mean very much.
In this and similar cases, companies have been modifying their end use license agreements -- commonly called the EULA -- to state that the consumer agrees to be bound by the conditions of the agreement. And -- voila! -- one of those conditions is now that the consumer will not exercise the right to sue.
In other words, you still have the right. You just can't use it. What could be fairer? After all, no one is holding a gun to your head and forcing you to use Microsoft Word, right?
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