[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/ g1 @& g6 @, W4 x$ A6 y

$ ^, {; i* G! ~# E3 x( E% ZWhich? slams websites for making users agree to small print up to 36,275 words long
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By Tom GardnerTVBNOW 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。2 f/ _5 e$ W! o& {

: S' {9 N$ ]0 e2 G公仔箱論壇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.5.39.217.76' b5 s8 q, i9 B% J7 L# t
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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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4 v7 y( B$ s  u' ?* Ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvbIt has produced a list of the worse offending sites - where T&Cs, as they are known, are longer than some of Shakespeare's classics.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ t% C7 \% p0 x( W" Z3 |
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9 ^9 M$ I! P% R& \( h! ?* K. f! yTVBNOW 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。Tough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic Hamlet
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* Q0 q# H* ~  u# t( c( FLeading website PayPal topped the chart by containing more words than Hamlet.
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9 z5 _( x' \0 ^5 I' d  v公仔箱論壇The terms on Apple’s iTunes page is longer than Macbeth, according to the research.
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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.
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7 \* W9 W5 t: S" K& D‘A slicker solution is needed, where websites flag up the most important parts of their T&Cs to consumers.’公仔箱論壇* I% J2 h: Y" K/ l' E, }, m
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.
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. ]7 \- l# Z; t( D+ |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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6 X0 m4 a. f4 w7 G9 m6 \- wHamlet has 30,066 words including the famous To Be Or Not To Be soliloquy and the moving ‘goodnight sweet prince’ speech at the end.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ f4 Q  ]5 T, D

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Feat of endurance: Reading every word of PayPal's terms and conditions would require considerable stamina公仔箱論壇* h- n2 ?$ b$ o: o% m+ ]& L
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Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet
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! U+ r8 d9 r8 l2 u8 F4 u/ @Weighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 words
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A TOUGH READ: NUMBER OF WORDS IN T&CStvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' e5 u; ~8 n$ h1 g3 k" K
Paypal: 36,275 tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb0 `3 U# r- {% n3 j# Y! G8 n
Hamlet: 30,066
8 Y! T/ g2 F2 o5 s2 v' N( o; B5.39.217.76Apple iTunes: 19,972
0 A9 ^. w4 q& m公仔箱論壇Macbeth: 18,110 公仔箱論壇: @4 S+ i6 Z/ q0 u. G& K1 J
Windows Live: 14,714
% O. s* a3 s# u' F+ c: j1 [' \2 jApple iOS 5: 13,366
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Google (inc Books/Chrome/Wallet): 10,640
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  g8 Y! j+ j* l) m$ j! Z) aAmazon Kindle: 7,115
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& ?2 L: L1 f$ y5 n* GTVBNOW 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’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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For those who also want to use Apple iCloud then there are another 10,724 words to read through.
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And before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.
' x, H% o, H% U3 m) v8 N6 TOthers 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。: M7 Q: ]0 p$ o0 t
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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.5 F1 ~6 r7 t# L8 i* p" f# T% Q- a
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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.5.39.217.766 n& \! \: o# O. L, \4 @

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