Posted on 04/15/2010 9:14:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
A computer game retailer revealed that it legally owns the souls of thousands of online shoppers, thanks to a clause in the terms and conditions agreed to by online shoppers.
The retailer, British firm GameStation, added the "immortal soul clause" to the contract signed before making any online purchases earlier this month. It states that customers grant the company the right to claim their soul.
"By placing an order via this Web site on the first day of the fourth month of the year 2010 Anno Domini, you agree to grant Us a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul. Should We wish to exercise this option, you agree to surrender your immortal soul, and any claim you may have on it, within 5 (five) working days of receiving written notification from gamesation.co.uk or one of its duly authorised minions."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Isn’t that standard in most license agreements? Like the right to your first born, all your legal rights now and forevermore as well as any claims for damages. any legal recourse, any privacy you thought you had, etc?
look for MS to sue on copyright infringement.
Game Station will not get the last laugh. A majority of voters already sold their souls in the 2008 presidential election.
Got your nose!!!
hehe... that gag always works! at any age!
I have enough trouble looking after my own. What would I want others for?
I bet there is a restocking fee on returns...
Hmmmm, what about someone like me who doesn’t have a soul?
ping
I am easily amused, but some people don’t find this kind of thing funny.
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Isn’t this along the lines of the ‘fools’ that stood in line and sent in their bucks to have a star named for them and put in a registry?
And they (supposedly) knew what they were doing?
I’ll be damned, Grandma was right.
Those video games really are the work of the devil.
Me too, but I told them time is just a consideration and I considered that one billion years had passed.
The let me go.
No kidding.
I believe the legal phrase is 'your genome and all derivative works'...
Not The, THEY!
They let me go.
(is the damm coffee done yet???)
The latest iTunes license update ran 92 pages.
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