Is signing up for web services too complex?

When I recently discussed End User Licence Agreement (EULA) analysis services, I touched on one of the issues involved in obtaining most web services: the registration process.

Michael Parekh has now written a humorous but accurate article detailing the sometimes painful sign up process used by web service companies.

Tom Evslin asks why there can't be a standard EULA? " I’m sick of signing up for each service separately and really would like to be able to build  interesting combinations of services without asking people to register separately for each component service."