Quote Originally Posted by 'PyrostasisTDK',index.php?page=Thread&postID=84212 #post84212
For instance, just because you sign an agreement that takes away your rights and lets you become my slave, doesnt make it a valid legal document. A lot of language in EULA's and ToS's is such language, granted not as extreme, but same logic.
Freedom is a basic human right in the USA. You can't sign away your basic human rights in the USA. Therefore, a contract based on that premise is invalid. Playing a video game is not a basic human right, and neither is owning property, real or virtual, a basic human right. Your basic human rights can be suspended or revoked in a Federal court. Rights must be specifically given or specifically taken away from my understanding. Things that are neither of those definitive statuses just have yet to be decided on by a court of law.

The only leg you have to stand on is that they call it a contract, and contracts require a negotiation to happen. Failure to negotiate, ie. demands without a counteroffer, do not meet the legal definition of contract in all states. Feel free to argue that it's all semantics and hairs being split, but that's what the law is, legal interpretations of rules written by someone other than a judge.

Edit:Whoa, hit over three pages while I spent time typing this, sorry if it's been covered.