TERMS AND CONDITIONS

A Legal Thriller

Greg Kennedy, 2015

Read it here.

NaNoGenMo 2015 issue: dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015#144

What?

It's an entry for NaNoGenMo 2015 (see: https://github.com/dariusk/NaNoGenMo-2015). It generates an incomprehensible legal document, and you can sign it if you dare.

How?

• Pull from corpus/, which includes the ToS and EULAs for a number of Popular Websites. Throw in GPLv3 for good measure.
• Markov chains.
• Profit!

Why?

• An interesting diversion from my main entry
• A commentary on the now ubiquitous Terms of Service, a block of legalese we have become instinctively trained to skip and click "I Agree".

And?

• Licensed under WTFPL, which is the most diametrically-opposed license I could find to what the tool actually generates.
• Various documents in corpus are probably NOT WTFPL. Sue me :P