AP Examines Just How Ridiculous ISP Contracts Are
from the just-so-you-know dept
We recently learned that customers of Verizon's FiOS service don't get to see the full terms of service they're agreeing to until after it's been installed. But, of course, no one actually reads those kinds of things, because if you did, you'd probably never agree to it. To help you out, the Associated Press took some time to read through various ISP end user license agreements (EULAs) and discovered that ISPs put a ton of ridiculous stuff in the fine print, which is basically to give them many different options to kick you off if they suddenly decide you've become a problem. Or, in some cases, it's because lawyers want to protect the ISPs from ridiculous lawsuits, which leads them to put in clauses warning customers that the ISP (in this case, Verizon) doesn't own the internet, so that people know they can't sue Verizon for something that happens online. Verizon recently removed that clause, apparently realizing that it was a bit extraneous.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Filed Under: contracts, eulas, isps, terms of use
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duh, everyone knows Al Gore owns the internet
He has also invented "how to loose a presidential election by not getting your home state to vote for you" and of course Global Warming.
He is probably most known for his invention of Global Warming.
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Verizon no longer asserts that they "don't own the internet."
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Supposed to be a dumb pipe
"Without the safeguards offered in these policies, customers could suffer from degradation of service and be exposed to a broad variety of malware threats," said David Deliman, spokesman at Cox Communications."
Is this in reference to their TOS ?
I don't get it. Is that some sort of threat ?
And - yes, competition would (hopefully) put such practices out of business.
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TCP vs. IP
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fine print
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Re:
The fact that you seemingly think other people think so is hilarious! Thank you Captain Obvious.
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