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Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer

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Re: Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer

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Post by shareme »

dotBen wrote: post #17
pstack wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I agree with the fear-mongering. I guess the author needed to fill article space, this week. I'm a privacy-nut type of person and I hate restrictive and absurd licenses. I'm a fan of telling the man to eat it. Note that I'm not justifying restrictive or broad legal agreements, either. I think it's stupid. I just don't think it's any more stupid than similar agreements for similar sites that provide similar servic…

I don't think the author wrote the piece to fill article space because she is sitting across the dinner table from me and we've been discussing it all evening :) The issue - which has already been reiterated above - is that the Ts & Cs that the existing service operates under are changing to a far more restricted set. Your argument kinda meanders around being a privacy nut and sticking it the the man, then you say yo…

It snot changing to a more restrictive set just a more defined set of TOS terms rather than being ignorant of things in the USA such as DCMA, etc.

Re: Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer

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Post by dhimes »

corin_ wrote: post #6
merloen wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those are the old terms.

My bad, deleted my comment. Assumed that "Current (and about to be former)" meant that they were putting former into the brackets (so in that quoted bit it was just a "..." that was removed) and that their bold was showing the new text.

Please don't delete comments. It fucks up reading the thread. Thanks.

Re: Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer

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Post by pstack »

dotBen wrote: post #17
pstack wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I agree with the fear-mongering. I guess the author needed to fill article space, this week. I'm a privacy-nut type of person and I hate restrictive and absurd licenses. I'm a fan of telling the man to eat it. Note that I'm not justifying restrictive or broad legal agreements, either. I think it's stupid. I just don't think it's any more stupid than similar agreements for similar sites that provide similar servic…

I don't think the author wrote the piece to fill article space because she is sitting across the dinner table from me and we've been discussing it all evening :) The issue - which has already been reiterated above - is that the Ts & Cs that the existing service operates under are changing to a far more restricted set. Your argument kinda meanders around being a privacy nut and sticking it the the man, then you say yo…

Really, I didn't figure "I'm a stickler for privacy concerns, but this example doesn't particularly bother me since it's on par with others of its kind, especially when they may be trying to make it an even more social service than it already is" was particularly meandering. If you're baffled by the idea that I can be generally concerned with privacy and bad user agreements, but not take any special exception to this one over others, then I don't know what to tell you. Some stuff is worth losing your shit over and some isn't. This isn't.

Re: Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer

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Post by pyre »

shareme wrote: post #21
dotBen wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think the author wrote the piece to fill article space because she is sitting across the dinner table from me and we've been discussing it all evening :) The issue - which has already been reiterated above - is that the Ts & Cs that the existing service operates under are changing to a far more restricted set. Your argument kinda meanders around being a privacy nut and sticking it the the man, then you say yo…

It snot changing to a more restrictive set just a more defined set of TOS terms rather than being ignorant of things in the USA such as DCMA, etc.

What in the DMCA covers offensive or obscene material? I thought that it only covered copyright.

Re: Why You Should Think Twice About Opting-In to the Delicious-AVOS Transfer

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Post by realityloop »

cracki wrote: post #19

sweet little command to dump your delicious bookmarks (copied/stolen from the Scrumptious setup guide): curl -u [: ] -o mine.xml https://api.del.icio.us/v1/posts/all That's now running hourly on my computer. I'll write myself a "loss check" too, to see if any of my "questionable" (private) bookmarks start disappearing.

unfortunately this currently returns:

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