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Razer Prohibits Use of Its Mice with Multiple PCs

28 May 2009

I bought a AU$200 Razer Mamba mouse. Being inclined as I am, I decided to read through the legalese that accompanied the mouse, including the EULA for the driver software. ‘Razer™ grants you a … license to use one copy of the enclosed software … on one computer only … No other rights are granted.’

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Legislative Spaghetti: Price Fixing under the TPA

11 February 2009

Sometimes you come across legislative drafting that is so bad that there’s no excuse for it. The Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth) s 45A(1) deems price fixing to substantially lessen competition for the purposes of s 45. It does this in one 152-word sentence that scores 0.0 on the Flesch Reading Ease Test and has a Flesch–Kincaid Grade Level of 63.1.

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