ISP And Contract Issues (was Re: Webone blocking port 25??)
Alfred
alfred at mazuma.net.au
Fri Jul 26 12:11:03 EST 2002
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> Consumer protection doesn't cover not reading contracts before you sign them
> (ie. stupidity).
>
Actually, it does :) (to some degree). The argument goes that
corporations a big and have huge amounts of resources (i.e lawyers).
Consumers are single individuals, with severly limited resources and
knowledge. So we have consumer protection acts to stop coporations
screwing us over :) Things such as "no returns" policies are illegal
because of this. There is the "fitness for purpose" requirements as
another example.
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