Cory Doctorow on the license for Amazon Unbox

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Boing Boing: Amazon Unbox to customers: Eat shit and die

Amazon's new video-on-demand store may sound like a good idea, but once you take a look at the "agreement" you enter into by giving them your money, that changes. The Amazon terms-of-service are among the worst I've ever seen, a document through which you surrender your rights to privacy, integrity of your personal data, and control over your computer, in exchange for a chance to pay near-retail cost to watch Police Academy n-1. As Ben Franklin might have said: "They that can give up general purpose computers for the sake of a little eye candy deserve neither computers nor eye candy."