Actually the legal status of EULAs is still a matter open to debate. Whether a specific clause is valid or not is upto the courts. So how things get applied is upto the Judge you get deciding the case. In the case of the software companies they can often afford to take it all the way to the extreme if they so decide. How far can the average person take it? And yes this does also apply to the automative industries and other large industries but at least in those cases they don't have the legal "contract" of the EULA binding you with those ridiculous claims. If you get a bad judge who ignores or doesn't know the law then you are likely to lose to the "Contract". Can you afford to take a bad ruling to the next level? The software companies can.
Here is a nice
LINK to a case where the court was in favor of us the people for a specific clause in a EULA. That does not however overrule all of them and any recent EULAs will not have that clause in them anymore. However now they are trying a new tactic the tactic of
Exerpt from EULA:
6. General. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of X.
Where X is whatever country or state has the laws that would most favor them. How that will be handled has yet to be seen.
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