Know your meme tells us that the internet term "tl;dr" was first posted on
Urban Dictionary in 2003. Almost 10 years later is is the name of a business that allows the visitor to look up an open source license and its "plain English" summary. This is an interesting solution to the issue most consumers have with reading these documents in full. Microsoft computer used to force you to scroll to the bottom of the document to accept the terms. Surely now that this is no longer required there is an even smaller amount of people actually reading them. With service like
TL;DR Legal that could potentially be accredited by a council of willing businesses they could summarize commercial software licences like end-user license agreements for programs. This doesn't have anything to do with online piracy but definitely relates to the networked world and building a better understanding of the legal guidelines that most are ignorant towards.
**It would be really cool if somehow TL;DR Legal pitched their service by suggesting a $/actual reads model**
I think we do need to focus more on the networked world in general. TL;DR Legal could make a ton of profit as even i know myself I do not read any of the full scripts.
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