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In what way would the EULA/contract be illegal/invalid? The US has a pretty broad freedom of contract. No one has forced you to buy that licensed computer program. You don’t need it to survive. You’re not discriminated against by not being allowed to buy the software instead of a license.
Understand I’m playing devil’s advocate here. I agree that such contracts are morally corrupt, but I’m not aware of anything that’d make them illegal. Only by being truthful regarding the current laws is how we can make change.
Contracts require four elements in order to be valid: offer, acceptance, consideration, and intention to create legal relations. EULAs fail at multiple of these:
If it were presented at the time of sale and you had to agree before the money was exchanged maybe it’d be different, but that’s not how they do things. And even then, it would still fail at “consideration” unless they offer you something above and beyond the right to use your property, which I cannot emphasize enough, you already have.
(By the way, since it sometimes comes up as a “gotcha” rebuttal attempt: no, Free Software licenses are not EULAs, and that’s why they are valid while EULAs are not. You are not required to “agree” to the GPL etc. merely to use the software; it only kicks in when you want to do something, like modification or redistribution, that would otherwise be copyright infringement. It grants you those new privileges in exchange for accepting its terms, and that consideration is what makes it valid.)