liedra

I'm writing my PhD thesis (at the Centre for Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics, Australia) on just this problem from a technology ethics point of view. It's almost ready for submission so I'll be publishing some papers soon, and have one draft PDF available at http://liedra.net/papers/

I think you're wrong in your last paragraph, and that there are many parts of EULAs that affect consumers adversely, even if it doesn't seem to be much of a problem at the time. It's ultimately an informed consent issue. Things like data privacy and such can be "hidden" amongst 5000 words of legalese, which is, as you say, so hard to read that many lawyers don't read all the way through. Ethically speaking, this is atrocious, and not something that should just be fixed when something awful happens, because it has already happened (look at software like Zango etc. which installs third party applications, websites where you sign away all your copyright to them when you upload a photo, etc.), and even if it hadn't happened, that's not a good excuse to allow companies to continue to use EULAs like these. I could ramble all day about this (and have done so in my thesis for 250 pages) so I'll leave it short and simple :)

You've not heard of Ultra Heat Treated (UHT) milk before? In Australia you can just buy it in supermarkets from the non-refrigerated shelf. Great for taking camping or to keep around for emergencies.