Pixar's funny EULA for Buy n' Large

Cory Doctorow

9:52 pm Wed, Nov 28, 2007

Gary sez, “For Pixar’s upcoming film Wall*E, they studio has created a very detailed website for Buy n’ Large, the corporation that is credited as part of the cause of human civilization’s descent into couch dwelling sloths. The site in and of itself is a fantastic, yet subtle, send up of corporate policies and puffery. Pixar’s gentle, yet pointed, satire is amusing throughout the surprisingly massive site.

“But the true brilliance lays in the Buy n Large Disclaimer. It’s fantastic. In fact, the brilliance starts on the homepage where they state ‘Opt-out requests may be ignored as we do not send this site or any communications to anyone.'”

Buy n Large will share your personal information with third parties whenever it deems such sharing to be advantageous to it, including when you engage in certain activities on our site such as using a menu, viewing, clicking your mouse or breathing. Buy n Large will also share your personal information when you respond to promotional materials from Buy n Large and authorize a third party to use your personal information for purposes such as, for example, sending you additional promotional materials that further obligate you (and your family) to receive additional promotional materials, providing you a product or service, or entering you in a contest, sweepstakes or game that will usually require a financial obligation on the part of the user.
By visiting Buy n Large you are contractually obligated to read all email that is sent to you via the Buy n Large servers. Failure to do so will be considered of a breach of contract.
We automatically log all information about your computer’s connection to the Internet, which we call “Buy n Large Property”. Buy n Large Property consists of things such as IP address, operating system and type of browser software being used and the activities conducted by the user while on our site (or other sites). We may also use some of the Buy n Large Property, such as the pages you visited on our site (or other sites), to send you e-mail messages (such as “Buy n Large requires you to join our Buy n Large Corporate Street Team. Failure to do so will result in legal action”) focused on products that we feel you should (or must) be interested in and now are contractually obligated to be interested in.

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