It has become an old joke that no one reads terms and conditions anymore. Whenever your phone sends you an update or you try to download something new there is always a long list of Ts and Cs that no one wants to bother with. Click accept and move on. However, someone finally read the entirety of the Apple iTunes terms and conditions and found something truly surprising, read on to find out.
You will be interested to know that when you download iTunes you also agree not to use it in the development of nuclear weapons. I know this will upset many of you who downloaded the software for just that reason but it is true. An eagle-eyed reader spotted the clause in what must have been a crisis of boredom.
I once worked for a company where I had to write the Ts &Cs of a product. It reached over thirty pages and we were so certain no one would ever read them that we wrote a clause in after about twenty pages that if anyone read this far and contacted us asking for a chocolate bar, we would send them one. I can tell you now, we did not have to buy any chocolate bars.
In reality, all of these clauses are all there for legal reasons. The US Department of Security has told American companies that they can not make any products that could be used in the production of nuclear weapons so iTunes was just covering their legal pitfalls. I am not sure what could happen but perhaps if someone was strange enough to build a nuclear warhead and wanted it to play highway to hell as it flew across the sky, Apple could get in trouble.
Terms and conditions are becoming a genuine issue though. As fewer and fewer people read them governments are considering sanctioning more strict requirements to ensure that consumers know what they are agreeing to with every purchase. The use of personal data is an extremely sensitive topic at present and many feel that hiding the terrible intentions in the depths of a T and C document is not good enough.
