25-Pack of 2" x 1" receipt stickers
6-pack of 5" x 1.5" laptop stickers
These days, it feels like you can't make it through the day without signing your soul over to someone—or at the very least, access rights to your hard drive when you load a new Sony CD. Thinking of installing Vista OS? Make sure you've got Microsoft's OK before you say anything bad about it. Email RCA with a question about the TV you bought and you consent to having your personal details passed on to marketers. Buy a neutered cat and you promise never breed it. (strewth!)
Of course, the truly pernicious aspect of the End User License Agreement—that inevitable stream of fine print you whiz past on the way to clicking "accept" or signing on the X—is that you're not, in fact, expected to read it. Have you even tried running 1,000 words of jargon past counsel on a Best Buy Saturday morning? Dude, you're holding up the line! Besides, nobody's going to call you on the microscopic wherebys and wherefores anyway, right? Until the day the company suits come knocking: The trouble isn't that you can't afford the fine for violating an agreement you may not have willingly "agreed" to; you can't afford the lawyer to fight the fine you can't afford.
It's time for it to stop. It's time to start taking all the legalistic bullcrap seriously, or at least as seriously as it's taking us.
To that end Bumperactive, in partnership with the fine crusaders of Boing Boing, is proud to present the "Reasonable Agreement" series of stickers. Call 'em End User License Agreement Activist Amendments, or EULAAAs (for dramatic effect, best pronounced like Stanley Kowalski hollering up at the balcony). Each sticker contains its own tightly crafted anti-nonsense to insulate you from Kafkaesque memos from the Castle, and includes the reasonableagreement.org URL to help recruit others for the cause. And per our revenue sharing program22.5 percent from each sale benefits The Electronic Frontier Foundation, perhaps the organization that's doing the most to protect your free speech, privacy and consumer rights in the digital age.
We've got 25-packs of 2" x 1" "receipt stickers" for you to: 1). Paste over the paperwork the counter jockey hands you the next time you make a purchase and, 2). hand back to the jockey, thereby nullifying any obnoxious and intrusive agreements. Hey, if a corporation can slip you a scrap that says "These are the rules," why can't you say "Nope, these are"?
We also have six-packs of similarly worded "laptop stickers", to protect you during any chance encounters with company flacks at the coffee house, and Reasonable Agreement bumper stickers, which will cloak your wake in an impenetrable fog of indemnification, much like docking with the Weapons Van in Spy Hunter. Nifty Reasonable Agreement T-shirts are also available from our friends at Mondo Tees.
At $4.50 for a one-pack order, and with volume rates for larger purchases, negotiating a Reasonable Agreement of your own will set you free in the modern marketplace!