Design student Gregg Bernstein has turned Apple's 4,000+ iTunes terms and conditions disclaimer into a really simple document understandable by anyone and that takes 2 minutes to read and sign up to.

So-called Click Through Agreements (CTAs) are used by most companies to get people to sign up to the terms of a service. Sadly, they are usually so long and convoluted that nobody reads them. Hence "click through" agreement.

Gregg worked with a law professor (Robert Bartlett, University of Georgia) to make sure his new format document holds water, legally. It makes you think, doesn't it. If you can get all the necessary points across in such a short format, why do companies resolutely stick to using the huge mounds of legalese so common currently?

I'd love to hear the legal arguments for the use of impenetrable consumer contracts.

Or, maybe I wouldn't.