[美洲] PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth

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To read, or not to read... the terms and conditions: PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth
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Which? slams websites for making users agree to small print up to 36,275 words long % Y+ f: h# Q0 b" O( p5 D
Watchdog lists the worst culprits and calls for changes
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% f% c+ v* ~" [# D( l* tBy Tom Gardner
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A consumer watchdog has launched a scathing attack on websites which make users agree to terms and conditions that can be tens of thousands of words long.
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Which? said it was 'unreasonable' to expect people to wade through pages of legal jargon, then tick a box to say they have read and understood the small print.
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It has produced a list of the worse offending sites - where T&Cs, as they are known, are longer than some of Shakespeare's classics.
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Tough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic Hamlet公仔箱論壇& [: u# \! Q5 r! \! V7 Z' l; u- ]
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Leading website PayPal topped the chart by containing more words than Hamlet.
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The terms on Apple’s iTunes page is longer than Macbeth, according to the research.3 g9 r4 V2 z( K$ T( R# k. ]* Y
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A spokesman for Which? said: ‘We think it’s unreasonable to ask people to read prohibitively long T&Cs before they agree to use a service.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。$ j2 P0 p! g+ ]- i

9 |" q0 {8 H+ ^+ P‘A slicker solution is needed, where websites flag up the most important parts of their T&Cs to consumers.’公仔箱論壇3 d, N5 z7 ~6 ?% n% ~
Amazon, Google, Facebook and Windows also have enough words to fill a small novel yet expect them to be read as part of their contract with the customer.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb( T' y7 e6 j! g7 X/ N5 O
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The worst culprit is PayPal, a secure payment system for internet users, which has a terms and conditions box containing a total of 36,275 words.
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It includes around 9,200 words on its privacy policy and the rest split on its shipping services policy, billing agreement and terms of acceptable use.
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Hamlet has 30,066 words including the famous To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy and the moving ‘goodnight sweet prince’ speech at the end.公仔箱論壇. f9 j" M4 ?0 [5 M: E* ?# |" n

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7 R- Z- r8 I) r8 [' xFeat of endurance: Reading every word of PayPal's terms and conditions would require considerable stamina公仔箱論壇0 J4 _( d! l6 \

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Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet
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& }  Q7 V1 ?: w6 y( c, jtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWeighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 words% V$ J+ B& ]5 O. o9 D

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! y% H3 F# ], E9 n2 vHamlet: 30,066 + x3 m4 N) ?8 b4 J  F
Apple iTunes: 19,972
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Apple iOS 5: 13,366 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' L: d+ n8 F7 ]+ `! [; l& b
Facebook: 11,195 TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。+ F8 L1 o- _( K5 D" }
Google (inc Books/Chrome/Wallet): 10,640
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Amazon.co.uk: 5,212
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$ |8 o) L* O0 a' {" j& H, aApple’s iTunes has a total of 19,972 words telling users what they can and can’t do while Macbeth runs to 18,100 in comparison, said Which?
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# e2 A- g; v& x5 _For those who also want to use Apple iCloud then there are another 10,724 words to read through.5.39.217.76- ^; b* Q# R. X

5 r9 V3 ?2 c: Q  P- ttvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAnd before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb+ R, o1 B  N% p3 \" R
Others are not as bad but still have too many words to expect the average user to read them all, said Which?tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb% G3 s$ @+ ]& J0 W. w

7 {) i# z$ a  R, y公仔箱論壇This includes Google which has 10,640 words in a new single policy and terms box which covers all its services including Chrome and Walet.! ~; `- T/ H2 D4 X+ r3 {2 T
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While using the Amazon website means reading 5,212 words of T&C, using the firm’s Kindle product requires ticking a box to say you’ve read 7,115 words of policy.
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