{"id":7947,"date":"2011-06-29T21:12:03","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T01:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbachnet.wwwmi3-ss40.a2hosted.com\/?p=7947"},"modified":"2021-08-10T16:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T20:36:16","slug":"richard-dreyfuss-reads-the-itunes-eula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/richard-dreyfuss-reads-the-itunes-eula\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Dreyfuss Reads the iTunes EULA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"www.cnet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNET<\/a> <a title=\"www.cnet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html?part=.com=feed&amp;subj=Crave.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asks<\/a> why are end-user license agreements (EULA) and <a title=\"Terms of service\" href=\"https:\/\/secure.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/wiki\/Terms_of_service\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">terms of service<\/a> so long and convoluted. In order to find out, they asked <a title=\"Academy Award\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oscars.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage noopener noreferrer\">Academy Award<\/a> winner <a title=\"Richard Dreyfuss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000377\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Dreyfuss<\/a> to help them understand by doing a <a title=\"podcast-files.cnet.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/chkpt.zdnet.com\/chkpt\/1pcast.roundtable\/podcast-files.cnet.com\/podcast\/4EffectiveUntil.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dramatic reading<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com.\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tradingview.com\/symbols\/NASDAQ-AAPL\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">AAPL<\/a>) <a title=\"Software license agreement\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Software_license_agreement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia noopener noreferrer\">EULA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0073195\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-110099 size-full\" title=\"Richard Dreyfuss Reads the iTunes EULA\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard_Dreyfuss.jpeg?resize=266%2C132&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Richard Dreyfuss Reads the iTunes EULA\" width=\"266\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard_Dreyfuss.jpeg?w=266&amp;ssl=1 266w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard_Dreyfuss.jpeg?resize=75%2C37&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/Richard_Dreyfuss.jpeg?resize=150%2C74&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6>Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160825061510\/http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5810071\/remains-of-the-day-icloud-brings-music-drm-back-to-itunes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Remains of the Day: iCloud Brings Music DRM Back to iTunes [For What It&#8217;s Worth]<\/a> (lifehacker.com)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. 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Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNET asked Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss to help them understand EULA&#8217;s by doing a dramatic reading of the Apple EULA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3045,420,628,101,32,71,611,627,629],"class_list":["post-7947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-3045","tag-aapl","tag-academy-award","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-eula","tag-itunes","tag-richard-dreyfuss","tag-software-license-agreement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7947"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129849,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7947\/revisions\/129849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}