標題: [美洲] PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth [打印本頁] 作者: vandas 時間: 2012-3-23 01:45 AM 標題: PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth
To read, or not to read... the terms and conditions: PayPal agreement is longer than Hamlet, while iTunes beats Macbeth # ^8 j1 w. r8 q; b; G# R/ j6 } + |5 D6 _& h8 H公仔箱論壇Which? slams websites for making users agree to small print up to 36,275 words long 5.39.217.76' R# W1 j3 o# @! ?
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- A' f% u5 w# s/ K/ x l# \7 `1 C% aBy Tom Gardner & e: R# |7 B$ a+ P9 k; c8 KTVBNOW 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。 8 k$ }1 Q$ b) r2 VA 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.2 C2 m- l# [# l: ^
$ I6 w! C4 P7 h. a& WTVBNOW 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。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. & y7 O( g: F8 i! e1 C, c * A$ m1 E5 E# \- d- FTVBNOW 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。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.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。, z4 b q6 D" i" u! O7 `
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Tough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic Hamlet $ T8 j& ~1 ?' I4 _# S- \# T2 d5.39.217.768 G, b5 V/ U1 @3 y4 v
Leading website PayPal topped the chart by containing more words than Hamlet. 1 c+ @' o, z$ A7 Q8 B" u
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The terms on Apple’s iTunes page is longer than Macbeth, according to the research.: B. i( t- e5 U5 _
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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.! y. X8 z1 h/ m; |2 A$ r) L4 O3 A
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‘A slicker solution is needed, where websites flag up the most important parts of their T&Cs to consumers.’tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb2 i: X' a; M( [; [) i
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. 1 W( K8 {, u3 M7 r4 ktvb now,tvbnow,bttvb* l5 ^, N9 z6 { [3 S
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., _( V0 L# k G' q
- T: v# F7 {# G9 g( s+ e" nIt 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. # H9 g4 {. u) z( J; [; z+ j5.39.217.76' ]* _- i' p( ?) j& X; h2 Q' ~2 K! {! [
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. ) C. I- U$ l# t' WTVBNOW 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。 5 c# o# J: y3 G1 |$ x {2 U* TTVBNOW 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。6 C) V( R- s5 c, `$ g
Feat of endurance: Reading every word of PayPal's terms and conditions would require considerable stamina公仔箱論壇: t7 S0 U/ g9 d# X( N$ ]# X# {' [
8 i, n- ]" D6 H, l3 l ) Q! s& s: i3 i: @" k# b5.39.217.76Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet 7 ?& B d- t/ Vtvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ V3 d% h4 E+ a0 l3 Y0 C$ P$ D ( J3 b. G/ e* C( MTVBNOW 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。Weighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 words5.39.217.76& E2 J4 \6 `4 Q* D5 d. n6 A
6 B( s& v: b- l# I& t7 C |- ` A TOUGH READ: NUMBER OF WORDS IN T&CStvb now,tvbnow,bttvb$ d) I) U: n5 W Paypal: 36,275 $ V1 p9 _/ y" ?* j5 ?5.39.217.76Hamlet: 30,066 : l' k# |8 F5 K- n4 T5.39.217.76Apple iTunes: 19,972 , Y1 G0 j: N$ y: Ytvb now,tvbnow,bttvbMacbeth: 18,110 ) f8 V4 M7 Z# d) ~3 T Windows Live: 14,714 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 c8 |' A8 z% |4 N Apple iOS 5: 13,366 0 w- [/ [# U; r公仔箱論壇Facebook: 11,195 公仔箱論壇3 [ ]# }. [& f4 }) Z& z Google (inc Books/Chrome/Wallet): 10,640 ; [" b! l8 m, c, jTVBNOW 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。Apple iCloud: 10,724 ' c; A2 e* A9 L3 O* _tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbAmazon Kindle: 7,115 " B3 z; n0 G7 N, J) DTVBNOW 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。Amazon.co.uk: 5,212 : Y0 l$ G) W& T4 z& L$ w9 t0 [6 xtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbTwitter: 4,445 % l8 k- B9 U3 L/ w/ b公仔箱論壇 3 j/ u9 O5 g2 M& s' Z; ?2 }# lApple’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? " H( a/ f o, L: m+ R9 ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvb / X: y+ r0 E5 g$ @' R6 a5 `公仔箱論壇For those who also want to use Apple iCloud then there are another 10,724 words to read through. ( l; M5 u4 @0 \ x公仔箱論壇公仔箱論壇: M3 m* h. D: Z9 x
And before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.公仔箱論壇 x+ z8 z6 U( f: @' Y
Others are not as bad but still have too many words to expect the average user to read them all, said Which?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。8 A# j5 r( ?/ J5 O; O4 k ~
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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. " l' P- r: c) |' B3 t( K5.39.217.76 ( I& i2 c/ \* y* ]! a' w4 }
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