When you crack open the seal on a high-end Fuji camera, Fuji gets to tell you what kind of pictures you get to take. We’re all for ethical behavior and not invading people’s privacy, but come on. Increasingly these End User License Agreements go too far in telling people what they can do with the stuff they buy with the money they earned. Hey there’s an idea, write an EULA on your dollars when you give it to the store stipulating how they can spend the money you give them. “By accepting these dollars you agree to…”
Fujifilm Professional Photography [FUJI] (Thanks to Jim!)
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It is irrelevant how people have misused technology to “see thru clothes”. It is much worse that you can now add a license agreement to a product. Forget how you feel about these specific provisions and think about the provisions that could be added to products if we allow this…
These diapers may not be used for children born out out wedlock.
This stain may not be used on old growth timber.
This fertilizer may not be used on non-native species.
wasn’t there a guy who wrote a “eula” type statement
on a check he used to pay for something at a store.
the statement, written to prevent him from being put on a mailing list, when violated entitled him to an obscene amout of cash.
or is that a ‘internet urban legend’ ?
@jonathanl: What the hell?
It is plenty relevant to the company whether or not they get their asses sued off. Although such things in the EULA may not offer any real restrictive capability, it will help them deflect liability in the case of a lawsuit.
Also, application of the slippery slope fallacy does little to help your point of view.
I guess in the future, all digital cameras will have built in wifi antennas that contact the mothership and if improved by $2 per hour outsourced Indian labor, only then will they save to your memory card.
Take a pic of your nude baby on a bear skin rug and that might be considered “lewd”? Fuji needs to get a clue. I understand the whole “CoA” (cover our asses) standpoint but come on. What law enforcement agency will hold Fuji responsible for some creepy photos taken by a buyer of their product? I can almost see the day where you have to sign an agreement promising not to use the hammer you are buying to take your landlord out. Indeed, the future looks like THIS:
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@toddkravos: Actually I’ve often wanted to do something like that. Mail a check for something, like my rent, and include a statement that says, “By depositing this check you agree to refund my entire security deposit regardless of the condition of my apartment, or pay me the sum of 5 gold dubloons, whichever is the higher amount.” Tell a call center rep that by speaking to me they have given their consent to be recorded.
Anyone know if it’s legal to do that?
Ok, so Fuji gets to live in their little fantasy land. Meanwhile, we get to live in the real world where their witty bitty EULA means jack schitt.
A recent conversation with a friend:
HER: [consumerist.com]
ME: Cool thread!
ME: The US government requires those to be packed with the IR one.
2:35
HER: No lewd activities.
ME: These are a ‘normal’ DSLR camera in every way except they remove the low pass filter. So ALL the kinds of light the sensor can capture–are captured, not just visible light.
ME: Cool huh?
HER: Gamma rays?
ME: No, not all -possible- light!
ME: Just that the sensor -can- physically see more values at each photosite (pixel, basically). But they are ‘cut down’ to only pull in colors we can see/print/represent.
HER: Including lewd content.
ME: It costs about $400 extra to get the IR version of a camera I think.
ME: 400 more for one less part.
ME: Lewd content is right behind my spanish fly.