Comments on: TOSBack: EFF's real-time tracker for changes in terms of service on popular Internet sites http://boingboing.net/2009/06/04/tosback-effs-real-ti.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 22:45:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Pete Hoffman http://boingboing.net/2009/06/04/tosback-effs-real-ti.html#comment-511233 Pete Hoffman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-511233 Well crap. And I had just picked the name BritneySpearsBatmanPope for my WoW avatar...guess it's back to the drawing board for me, since all of those are explicitly disallowed...jerks. Well crap.

And I had just picked the name BritneySpearsBatmanPope for my WoW avatar…guess it’s back to the drawing board for me, since all of those are explicitly disallowed…jerks.

]]> By: jeremynyc http://boingboing.net/2009/06/04/tosback-effs-real-ti.html#comment-510621 jeremynyc Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-510621 OK, so a quick check of the Facebook and YouTube changes in TOS that they point out makes it clear that a simple automated tool of this is going to be useless--the first has a change to a snail mail address and the second has a change to the date of publication. Nothing else in either has changed. This is a *great* idea, but it needs a little work on the data vs. information side of things. OK, so a quick check of the Facebook and YouTube changes in TOS that they point out makes it clear that a simple automated tool of this is going to be useless–the first has a change to a snail mail address and the second has a change to the date of publication. Nothing else in either has changed.

This is a *great* idea, but it needs a little work on the data vs. information side of things.

]]> By: bardfinn http://boingboing.net/2009/06/04/tosback-effs-real-ti.html#comment-510649 bardfinn Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-510649 "which ones are enforceable" would be legal advice, and I recall some manner of court case in the US regarding automated computer-analytics generating "legal advice". I recall it was not something the court in question viewed sympathetically. (But, yeah - if it didn't involve getting swiped for providing legal advice w/o a license, or getting billed for a lawyer's time and trouble, such an analysis would be very intelleshtingk.) “which ones are enforceable” would be legal advice, and I recall some manner of court case in the US regarding automated computer-analytics generating “legal advice”. I recall it was not something the court in question viewed sympathetically.

(But, yeah – if it didn’t involve getting swiped for providing legal advice w/o a license, or getting billed for a lawyer’s time and trouble, such an analysis would be very intelleshtingk.)

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2009/06/04/tosback-effs-real-ti.html#comment-510908 EH Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-510908 I so had this idea 10 years ago, back when eBay had one of the first TOS shitfits. I so had this idea 10 years ago, back when eBay had one of the first TOS shitfits.

]]> By: dumbwhore http://boingboing.net/2009/06/04/tosback-effs-real-ti.html#comment-510657 dumbwhore Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-510657 I sure wish they were monitoring netflix. Recently netflix has become increasingly insistent that I agree with their new TOS. Yet they don't want to explain what they changed, just have me read the 30 page agreement. I sure wish they were monitoring netflix. Recently netflix has become increasingly insistent that I agree with their new TOS. Yet they don’t want to explain what they changed, just have me read the 30 page agreement.

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