{"id":14274,"date":"2011-09-26T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T13:49:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ea-climbs-aboard-the-you-can-t-sue-us-lol-terms-of-service-roflcopter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14274-ea-climbs-aboard-the-you-can-t-sue-us-lol-terms-of-service-roflcopter","title":{"rendered":"EA climbs aboard the \u201cYOU CAN\u2019T SUE US LOL\u201d terms of service roflcopter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following Sony’s lead<\/a>, EA has updated its terms of service to prohibit users filing class action litigation.<\/p>\n

The agreement is now included with all EA titles, as well as its Origin digital distribution service.<\/p>\n

The relevant clause appears right at the end of the terms of service agreement:<\/p>\n

By accepting these terms, you and EA expressly waive the right to a trial by jury or to participate in a class action.<\/p>\n

YOU UNDERSTAND THAT BY THIS PROVISION, YOU AND EA ARE FOREGOING THE RIGHT TO SUE IN COURT AND HAVE A JURY TRIAL.<\/p>\n

YOU AND EA AGREE THAT EACH MAY BRING CLAIMS AGAINST THE OTHER ONLY IN YOUR OR ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, AND NOT AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING.<\/p>\n

Much like Sony’s own terms of service, this one contains an opt-out clause that requires users to notify EA of their decision in writing within 30 days of (dis)agreeing with them but – cue diabolical laughter here – the terms were last updated on August 25, so that deadline’s already history.<\/p>\n

Expect to see more of these in future, as a recent US Supreme Court ruling has set a precedent for this stuff. Next, maybe Sony and EA will be issuing colour-coded jumpsuits and Newspeak dictionaries with their products.<\/p>\n

EA climbs aboard the “YOU CAN’T SUE US LOL” terms of service roflcopter<\/a> <\/strong><< Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keep that malcontent to yourself<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}