[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 公仔箱論壇- M. @1 w, S0 ]9 s
Watchdog lists the worst culprits and calls for changes
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4 L4 n! ]: ~' v+ S5 K: O5.39.217.76By Tom Gardner公仔箱論壇" G' Q0 ]) }& Y  Z- y' p6 f

% v0 f# \9 L" J& Z2 I% |5.39.217.76A 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' e" U" r' N  `* X/ U( h3 R
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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.- g: Y$ w4 x% D$ I
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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.. i( N7 @/ ]$ H4 d( f7 A+ z  K& R
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Tough read: PayPal's terms and conditions stretched to 36,275 words - more than Shakespeare's classic HamletTVBNOW 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。0 I3 C# d" ?$ B- S
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Leading website PayPal topped the chart by containing more words than Hamlet.
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9 v+ |5 [! r9 z6 Q0 P6 z% L# hThe 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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‘A slicker solution is needed, where websites flag up the most important parts of their T&Cs to consumers.’# M2 f- ~1 v* v) M/ m0 V, D% 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.5.39.217.76( S5 s" y4 C8 o; Q8 i
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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.5.39.217.76, G4 z! m7 D6 ]6 Q

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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2 e( ?/ }  P0 W) ^
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Tragedy: Some terms and conditions would take longer to read than Shakespeare's Hamlet
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Weighty tome: Apple's iTunes required users to wade through nearly 20,000 wordsTVBNOW 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。3 s3 t0 ?$ X& S2 v
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A TOUGH READ: NUMBER OF WORDS IN T&CS5.39.217.76. V. v, S9 L* k4 K
Paypal: 36,275 公仔箱論壇9 Z' u; {3 z2 J  ^
Hamlet: 30,066
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Macbeth: 18,110 公仔箱論壇2 l* O& U/ o4 f2 T1 m. }
Windows Live: 14,714
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Amazon Kindle: 7,115
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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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# C& G8 J7 g* q! @/ D5 m$ }7 [4 UAnd before signing up to Apple’s iOS operating system, users are expected to read a further T&C folder containing 13,366 words.
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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.5.39.217.76( w+ Y+ C; Q8 R/ D7 \

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