3rd September 2012, 8:26 PM
http://consumerist.com/2012/08/microsoft...lause.html
It all comes down to a 2011 ruling. Somehow I think Scalloplia was involved. So the only court cases I can bring to MS are "small claims" related. In other words, if an update on Live bricks the whole console, or a flagrant case of negligence results in credit card information being stolen, there's really no major recourse, and "class action" suits (the only kind that actually would have an impact on a massive company like MS) just don't become possible.
Well folks, that's it then. Of course you don't HAVE to use MS's service, or Steam's, or AT&T's, or Verizon's, or your internet provider of record, or any of other countless companies currently jumping on the bandwagon. You COULD live as a hermit cut off from the digital age, THEN you're free.
It all comes down to a 2011 ruling. Somehow I think Scalloplia was involved. So the only court cases I can bring to MS are "small claims" related. In other words, if an update on Live bricks the whole console, or a flagrant case of negligence results in credit card information being stolen, there's really no major recourse, and "class action" suits (the only kind that actually would have an impact on a massive company like MS) just don't become possible.
Well folks, that's it then. Of course you don't HAVE to use MS's service, or Steam's, or AT&T's, or Verizon's, or your internet provider of record, or any of other countless companies currently jumping on the bandwagon. You COULD live as a hermit cut off from the digital age, THEN you're free.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)