Gregory's Server
1.) never trust a corporation.
2.) contracts with corporations are only worth so much the paper they are written on as long they are in the interest of said corporations. (Yes, they will break them, they do have their attorneys on retainer and huge legal departments, not using them would be wasting money, so if the contract makes no sense to BigCorp, they'll just break it. Fines, etc usually do not get them.)
@fullfathomfive
Given the imbalance of power, and the fact that you cannot force BigCorps to behave themselves (the only thing that seems to work for a moment seems to be "light", as in PR, shining publicity on their "bad" behaviour, but that seldom changes their behaviour, they just pretend to behave different for a moment) even with a written contract and the law, the safe approach is never to rely on them for important things, if you can help it.