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Anthropic accuses Chinese rival Alibaba of illicitly extracting AI capabilities (www.bbc.com)
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[โ€“] GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can you name a country where signing up for a paid account to an online service, and using the service and paying the invoice that comes in, doesn't form a legally binding contract between the customer and the vendor?

[โ€“] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Most countries in the EU don't allow for consumer rights to be overridden by an EULA.

Similarly, I can't have a contract with you to murder me. It's illegal and me being a willing participant in it does not make it legal, even if I sign a contract.

An EULA is legally binding, but only the parts that aren't in conflict with consumer rights, meaning most of any EULA is going to be invalid.