Remember a month of so ago, when we brought you news that Sony was adding an arbitration clause to its End User License Agreement? Presumably as a tactic to prevent class-action lawsuits? Remember how the EULA offered you a chance to opt out of signing away your legal rights by sending Sony a letter? If you're like me, you thought, "I should do that!" and then didn't do it -- finding a stamp and piece of paper is kind of a hassle, and the whole thing is a pain in the ass, right? It's almost as if Sony didn't create an easy way to opt out through an email or an online form because they count on people being lazy and not doing it. Shocking, I know.
Anyway, lazy gamer, today is your day. A group of fellow travelers and humanitarians have created an organization called "Gamers Opt Out" to provide an easy, no-mail way to not screw yourself out of basic legal protection. Funded through donations, Gamers Opt Out promises to create the letter you need and send it, at no charge. All you have to do is visit the site and sign up online.
You can opt out of the arbitration clauses in both the PSN and Origin. When you're done giving your information out to the letter carriers, if you have a couple bucks sitting around, donate it to them for stamps. These people are doing the Lord's work, and right now have over 2,000 letters to send. That's a lot of stamp-licking!
Source: Gamers Opt Out
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bigevilworldwide
Better cancel your xbox live too cause you agreed to it about a year to a year an a half ago in their updated TOS also, its also a pretty standard clause in most of the TOS for most electronic devices you own, so you should probably make your tinfoil hat move to the mountains and get off of the grid. Its amazing how people read you cant join class action lawsuits as you cant sue sony period. Just because you played phoenix wright doesn't mean you have a law degree, neither does taking a half a semester or a whole basic law course cause there is always one of those. Sony is just the first one to let you opt out of it, yet people are still too lazy to walk to their mailbox after scratching out a less than a paragraph letter......Yet people still try to claim they dont mind having to change out disc on their xboxes.
sirrogue2
I opted out of the PSN EULA by sending them an e-mail. On their support site, if you do a search of "decline EULA" there is information on how to get your account shutdown with just an e-mail.
For those of you with weak Search-Fu, just e-mail tos_psn@playstation.sony.com with your PSN ID and some blurb about they can stuff their EULA. Or just tell them nicely that you want to cancel your PSN account. Either way works.
brsterkens
sent mine out. hookem up with a $1.
Sally Wong
Sony and all others can dictate and demand all and any agreements that their greedy little hearts desire, but that does not make their requests or their actions binding or legal.
Such "Autonomy " that they are demanding, is usually reserved for a " Sovereign Nation " and a corporation will never be granted such power.
Love and Kisses: Sally Wong.
macross2012
Biggest problem is this whole thing WILL NOT hold up in court. Many gamers are under the age of 18 and this is NOT a binding contract. Good luck to anyone who thinks this will ever hold up in court because IT WILL NOT!. Plus you cannot prove who the original signer or accepter of this contract ever was. All you woud have to say in court is I never agreed to those terms and this is OUT THE DOOR!
jaku
We are aware of this issue. It should go though now but you might not get redirected to the statuspage, keep that hash value that you get and put it in https://www.gamersoptout.com/s tatus$HASH so if your hash was 1234 https://www.gamersoptout.com/s tatus1234
We didn't have any of these problems earlier but with the amount of traffic it kinda required a few re-writes. :)
njdss4
It's a great idea, but the website is buggy as hell. I tried filling out the form half a dozen times and kept getting account validation errors. Hope they get this fixed soon.
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