Regarding the "you can't sue us" clauses that are starting to crop up in EULAs...
First Sony and now EA as well.
For any lawyer-types who might be reading this... is this actually a thing that they can do? Well, I know that they can do it, because they've already done it, but what I'm really asking here is if this is something that would just be laughed out of court or would it actually be taken seriously? Like, say, if someone were to take EA to court over the clause in the EULA preventing them from taking EA to court, for example. I'm guessing this is a "try it and hope it sticks, and if not, oh well, we're no worse off than we were before" kind of thing.
For any lawyer-types who might be reading this... is this actually a thing that they can do? Well, I know that they can do it, because they've already done it, but what I'm really asking here is if this is something that would just be laughed out of court or would it actually be taken seriously? Like, say, if someone were to take EA to court over the clause in the EULA preventing them from taking EA to court, for example. I'm guessing this is a "try it and hope it sticks, and if not, oh well, we're no worse off than we were before" kind of thing.