LOL at new facebook TOS

[djetaine]

"You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof."

"You may remove your User Content from the Site at any time. If you choose to remove your User Content, the license granted above will automatically expire, however you acknowledge that the Company may retain archived copies of your User Content."

"The following sections will survive any termination of your use of the Facebook Service: Prohibited Conduct, User Content, Your Privacy Practices, Gift Credits, Ownership; Proprietary Rights, Licenses, Submissions, User Disputes; Complaints, Indemnity, General Disclaimers, Limitation on Liability, Termination and Changes to the Facebook Service, Arbitration, Governing Law; Venue and Jurisdiction and Other."

Basically, everything you put up on here is ours forever to do whatever we wish with.

What is also amusing is that somehow the facebook community is all up in arms about this.

First of all, the only thing that changed is now they have license to sell your shit after you cancel your account, the TOS already had the first clause in there before the change. They just removed the part about you getting your rights back when you cancel an account.
I wonder how many of them actually had facebook use their stuff already, probably somewhere close to... NONE.

Did people really assume that when they uploaded shit to someone elses server they were going to hold all rights to it though? Gimme a break.

People are dumb.

[PETA]

its a data mining resource that people gleefully stock with information and now they're up in arms about it?

[Funkenstein]

As much as people claim to be net savvy, so many aren't (as our nude group learned). Once it is up and out there folks, it is OUT there.

Oh well. I never joined the facebook hype. Myspace was bad enough to convince me not to go a round 2.

Too many people like to click without acknowledging what they are getting into.

[djetaine]

I'm on facebook. I upload my pictures. I write stupid little status updates. What the fuck ever. If facebook wants to use my face to promote their new herpes cure its w/e.
I'm not going to go publish my thesis on the new thinking of quantum mechanics though. MINE ALLLLLL MINE!!!!

[PJSOLDIER]

I just got a facebook. Not getting all the fanfare for it. Ive had myspace for years and its definatly superior imo.

[BretM]

PJSOLIDER.... your avatar is groovy.

[charlie brown]

[Pete Lek Bros]

I hate both myspace and facebook.... I might as well go back to friendster. I think I've just grown tired of having all these web accounts to websites that are out there.

[BradH]

Myspace has pretty much the same TOS. As do most social networking sites.

[PJSOLDIER]

Originally Posted by BretM

PJSOLIDER.... your avatar is groovy.

Thank you thank you! I dig it as well.

[Delfonic]

Originally Posted by St. Stalin the Apathetic

its a data mining resource that people gleefully stock with information and now they're up in arms about it?

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