I once pirated a book because I didn’t want to get it from another room.

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      19 hours ago

      That’s an insane litmus test of objective fact. I’d say a significant amount of court rulings go blatantly against reality lmfao.

      You can’t test things in court that aren’t disputed because someone has to dispute it… Who’s gonna dispute that a contract is a contract? Read the text it says when you buy a game. It says what it says. No court can say a document doesn’t say the words it literally explicitly says.

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        44 minutes ago

        Well I’m sorry that you don’t understand case law, but that’s exactly how it works in situations like this.

        Who’s gonna dispute that a contract is a contract?

        Nobody now, because that’s a precedent that’s already been set. In a court.

        Something that has not happened for the situation we’re talking about.

        Edit: to be clear, it’s not necessarily true that nobody would dispute that actually. There are likely numerous cases regarding identifying the validity of a contract on the books, which is how we know exactly what one is.

        If someone were to come up with an interesting enough situation that warrants a new case, then that outcome would be added to the list of cases that define what a contract is (do a Google search, there are already a whole bunch like that).

        That’s literally how the court system works.