COMPUTER SOFTWARE LICENSE SIMPLIFIED

	We, the developer, 
	hereby have the right to screw you.
	Technically speaking,
	we assume the right to change any feature of our software,
	collect any information from your computer,
	do anything to facilitate our sales,
	without liability for any damage(s) that might ensue.
	
	You, the consumer, 
	basically have no rights.
	You are simply a digital serf with limited choices
	and an insignificant life.
	Technically speaking,
	you have the right to push the "agree" button
	then continue to use the software you've purchased,
	or to press the "cancel" button
	and be left with a piece of useless junk.


Bill: This resembles all too many computer software contracts!

Liao: For sure! Many high-tech giants have the financial resources to shape government 
      consumer protection policies.

Gus:  All too often, what is euphemistically called "consumer protection" amounts to a joke. 


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from _Cyberpoems: Exploring the Human-Machine Interface_ by T Newfields
SUMMARY:   A dystopian, but all-too-realistic satire about digital serfdom
KEYWORDS:  digital serfdom, cyber-inequality, capitalist consumer exploitation, coercive contracts

Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955 - ?)
Begun: 2013 in Tokyo, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan
Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted

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