And those terms include a hidden zombie clause, relaxing restrictions on Lumberyard should the world be overrun by brain-eating reanimated corpses.
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Lumberjack, after all, is just for games.
But the prohibition is not universal:
But don’t think that a zombie apocalypse is suddenly a free-for-all. The terms won’t be waived if the zombie apocalypse is merely bacterial in origin, for example, or if causes a lust for bone, not brains, or if the CDC is overwhelmed before being able to certify the outbreak or establish a successor agency.
However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence (certified by the United States Centers for Disease Control or successor body) of a widespread viral infection transmitted via bites or contact with bodily fluids that causes human corpses to reanimate and seek to consume living human flesh, blood, brain or nerve tissue and is likely to result in the fall of organized civilization.
Someone Read the Terms of Service!
What’s really surprising here is not the zombie clause itself, but that it was ever discovered. The idea that anyone reads the terms of service is widely acknowledged to be one of the biggest lies on the Internet.
In 2010, Gamestation released an April Fool’s version of its terms of service under which users agreed to grant to company “a non transferable option to claim, for now and for ever more, your immortal soul,” unless they clicked a specific link. Despite 7,500 sales that day, the link went unclicked.
And finally, there’s the Herod Clause. Internet security expert Mikko Hyppönen once set up a free WiFi hotspot whose terms required users to “agree to assign their first born child to us for the duration of eternity.” Six people did.
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