Draw Breath

I'm not one for close readings of terms of use pages on websites, but I do tend to take a look for the various key ingredients: who will pay for what and the like. And fun reading they certainly don't make! Anyway, courtesy of Simsor, I've just come across a marvellous twist on this most obscure of literary genres: a German language terms of use page squeezed through the piping bag that is Babel Fish.

Try...

mindcom is responsible for easy negligence only, if a contract obligation substantial for reaching the contract goal and the fulfilment of the contract purpose was hurt.

Or indeed

The use of the Web service for commercial purposes, particularly for dispatching of advertising material, is not permitted. Among them falls in particular sucked. "Spamming", i.e. inconsiderate and massive recruiting.

I wonder: does computer-generated nonsense have any legal bearing? How's about if you kind of can see what they're getting at, which isn't far off non-translated terms of use agreements come to think of it...