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		<title>By: Tabbycat</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[From a logic standpoint, you make some good points.&lt;br&gt;Legally, however, it actually isn&#039;t as simple as you&#039;d like it to be.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&quot;Take it or leave it&quot; contracts prepared entirely by one side, with no discussion or negotiation of terms, and presented with no opportunity to make changes, are not legally valid.  They&#039;re called &quot;contracts of adhesion&quot;, and are invalidated every day in courts throughout the land.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We all love the free market, but too often the reality is a lot of &quot;market&quot; and very little &quot;free&quot;.  Suppose you&#039;re an who artist willing to post your song on Bebo, but would like to ask for a stipend should the company blow up?  That&#039;s not an option.  You check &quot;I agree&quot; or you don&#039;t,.  There&#039;s no equality of bargaining power, any more than when you stuck that Word disk you bought at Best Buy in your computer and it wouldn&#039;t let you install until you agreed to whatever it said. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You might not llike this, and would do it differently if you were king, but you&#039;re going up against a thousand years of Common Law, the basis of every single state constitution in this great land of ours.  Apparently the guys wearing robes and banging gavels still think it&#039;s a good thing.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From a logic standpoint, you make some good points.<br />Legally, however, it actually isn&#39;t as simple as you&#39;d like it to be.</p>
<p>&#8220;Take it or leave it&#8221; contracts prepared entirely by one side, with no discussion or negotiation of terms, and presented with no opportunity to make changes, are not legally valid.  They&#39;re called &#8220;contracts of adhesion&#8221;, and are invalidated every day in courts throughout the land.</p>
<p>We all love the free market, but too often the reality is a lot of &#8220;market&#8221; and very little &#8220;free&#8221;.  Suppose you&#39;re an who artist willing to post your song on Bebo, but would like to ask for a stipend should the company blow up?  That&#39;s not an option.  You check &#8220;I agree&#8221; or you don&#39;t,.  There&#39;s no equality of bargaining power, any more than when you stuck that Word disk you bought at Best Buy in your computer and it wouldn&#39;t let you install until you agreed to whatever it said. </p>
<p>You might not llike this, and would do it differently if you were king, but you&#39;re going up against a thousand years of Common Law, the basis of every single state constitution in this great land of ours.  Apparently the guys wearing robes and banging gavels still think it&#39;s a good thing.</p>
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