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Anything associated with Classmates.com has GOT to be evil…

Thanks, Robert in NZ for this:

URL of EULA: https://namesdatabase.com/terms.html
Product: Online contacts service to keep track of friends, linked with Classmates.com

Lowpoints: Section 3 “your information”:

Quote: “Your Information” is defined as any information you post or otherwise provide to Opobox and the Opobox Parties through or otherwise related to the Opobox Web Sites. Your Information includes, but is not limited to, information that may be sent to Opobox or the Opobox Parties passively by any electronic agent operating on your behalf including, but not limited to, information such as IP addresses, timestamps, and browser and operating system types and versions. You are solely responsible for Your Information, and Opobox acts as a passive conduit for your online distribution and publication of Your Information.

You grant Opobox a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, transferable, royalty-free right to (a) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat Your Information in any media now
known or not currently known, and (b) sublicense these rights, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Opobox will not pay you for Your Information. Opobox reserves the right (but not the obligation) to remove or edit Your Information, but does not regularly review Your Information.

BTW: they claim to have a databse of close to 31 million people. Yikes.

Readers: I want more, the good the bad and the ugly. email: asternbe [at] usc [dot] edu | form

Cory bought a new iPod Nano and boy is he sorry:

I bought a new Nano today b/c my old one died and I don’t have time to wait for warranty service before heading to France.

It’s a next-gen Nano. I plugged it into my Powerbook and iTunes 6 said, “I can’t manage that kind of iPod. You have to upgrade to iTunes 7.”

iTunes 7 takes away features I got in iTunes 6 — it breaks the music I’ve paid for.

I’ve seen iTunes updates forced by OS updates, but this is the first time I’ve seen an update forced by buying a new portable player.

iPods/iTunes DRM and related issues may be well documented but I *do* want to hear directly from you. What’s your biggest beef with Apple and the iTunes service. Alternatively, do you just roll with it and accept the standards set by Jobs as you accepted the standards established last decade by Gates? Bring it on! form | e-mail.

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