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Jun 24, 2005, 01:17 AM
 
http://freespace.filefront.com/1

The catch is that anything you put on their disks they have a right to use. So anything that you consider copyrightable and/or really sensitive might not be worth taking the risk. (BTW, I'm told Gmail has the same kind of user agreement!)

Also, at any time they can begin to charge for the storage. But, while it's free and it's available and you know the risks, it's GAME ON!

     
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Jun 24, 2005, 08:30 AM
 
That's for feckin idiots. There's nothing free about a EULA like that. There's a sucker born every minute.
http://hmurchison.blogspot.com/ highly opinionated ramblings free of charge :)
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 11:40 AM
 
yeah, that's pretty terrible that they basically say "it doesn't matter if you have a trademark, copyright, or patent on it. it's ours."

I guess if you know you really have nothing to back up that anyone else might be interested in, it's a good deal.

"I start fires!"
     
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Jun 24, 2005, 02:08 PM
 
Originally Posted by hmurchison2001
That's for feckin idiots. There's nothing free about a EULA like that. There's a sucker born every minute.
Owwwch.
     
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Jun 27, 2005, 04:22 PM
 
That can't possibly be legal. If I drop a copy of U2's new album up there, they can't turn around and use that in their TV commercials.

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Jun 27, 2005, 04:25 PM
 
Originally Posted by mojo2
(BTW, I'm told Gmail has the same kind of user agreement!)
From: http://mail.google.com/mail/help/terms_of_use.html

Your Intellectual Property Rights. Google does not claim any ownership in any of the content, including any text, data, information, images, photographs, music, sound, video, or other material, that you upload, transmit or store in your Gmail account. We will not use any of your content for any purpose except to provide you with the Service.

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Jun 27, 2005, 05:05 PM
 
While it clearly states in the TOA that they are allowed to anally rape people, without using any vaseline, they sure seem worried about their own intellectual rights.

We will enforce our intellectual property rights to the fullest extent of the law.

Here's the users rights:

You hereby grant us, our affiliates, and our partners a worldwide, irrevocable, royalty-free, nonexclusive, sub-licensable license to use, modify, copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, transfer, sell, transmit, distribute and publish Your Content and subsequent versions of Your Content for the purposes of (i) displaying Your Content on our sites, (ii) distributing Your Content, either electronically or via other media, to users seeking to download or otherwise acquire it, and/or (iii) storing Your Content in a remote database accessible by end users, for a charge.

Anybody who signs up for that deserves what they get, IMO.
     
 
   
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