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The Philips Hue ecosystem is collapsing into stupidity
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There is a bog standard line in nearly every ToS "We have the right to modify this terms of service without notification to the user" blah blah blah. It probably even holds up in court.
They do not.
The format where they do is when it is a service provider and they simply stop service of the contract. I.e. if you don't accept the terms and services for say, using reddit, they can just choose to not continue providing you access to those servers.
But it didn't hold up on contracts involving already rendered services or anything really other then the outcome of declining being 'everyone exiting the contract' or simply moving back to the previous contract.
Courts in the us have pretty much universally upheld that contracts cannot be changed without all parties agreeing.
Yeah but the whole tech industry operates as Whatever-as-a-Service now, which means those ToS changes are able to be applied whenever they like. You either continue using the service or you don't. This apparently applies to lightbulbs now. Lightbulbs as a Service. Sigh.
Does it matter that these ToS aren't available until after you buy the product? I mean, these agreements are rarely posted right next to the product in-store or online. Right?
You can own a doodad but it's a static, useless doodad until you agree to the ToS which allows you to use it.