What's even more annoying for a regular consumer is the click wrap/shrink wrap agreements that come in products that they buy packaged at the software store.

Essentialy you can't see the Terms on the EULA (that you are bound to) until after you've opened up the packaging that it has come in. Once you open up the packaging most companies/retailers will no longer accept returns on the product if you decide that you don't want to agree to the ELUA. So essentialy the consumer never gets to see the terms thier are supposed to be bound to before they purchase the product. Talk about unfair!

I'd love to see the Courts rule that any terms imposed on the consumer AFTER they paid for the product (i.e. inside shrink wrapped packaging) were null and void.

It wouls also be nice to see more Attorny Generals go after companies that attempted to impose terms in thier EULA that amounted to unfair bussiness practices or were otherwise illegal.

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