New LJ User Agreement

[kerravonsen]

Well, so LJ has a new user agreement, and have locked everyone out until they agree.
So I signed, in order to have access to my own blog. Grrr. Very bad form, LJ!
Whether or not the agreement is actually dodgy, it has been handled very badly... but since when has that been a surprise for LJ management? (Since before LJ was sold for the first time, that's when)

So, some people are panicking and deleting their journals, some are being less drastic. I'm not inclined to delete my journal (the past is the past), nor am I inclined to stop following the people/communities I'm following on LJ (why should I stop doing what I enjoy?). The only thing I'm considering is to stop crossposting from Dreamwidth. But... if I'm still going to be following people, and commenting, is there really any point in stopping crossposting? Especially since there are people following me on LJ who don't have Dreamwidth accounts. (FYI, my account on Dreamwidth has the same username as this one, if any of you are moving to Dreamwidth and want to follow me there.) My account on LJ is a permanent account, so it's not like I'm paying them any money now.

It is slightly amusing to see the complaints of people "not wanting to be subjected to another country's laws" (that is, Russian law rather than US law) when non-US-ians are subjected to another country's laws every time they use a US-based website! Even more so when US laws like the DMCA are very dodgy laws anyway. Remember Dmitry Sklyarov?

Would my posts be censored? If they were, the full version would be available on DW.
Would they revoke my agreement and delete my journal? If they did, I'm not going to do their work for them!
Would they put ads on my journal? I don't know, the agreement is unclear on that point. Bloody annoying if they do.

Comments

[delphipsmith]

When it came up for me I had the option "Do this later" (or something, I can't recall the exact wording). But I'm embarrassed to admit I signed it without reading it. I almost never read EULA or TOS documents -- TL;DR! It's a bad habit and will no doubt get me in trouble someday lol

It is slightly amusing to see the complaints of people "not wanting to be subjected to another country's laws" (that is, Russian law rather than US law) when non-US-ians are subjected to another country's laws every time they use a US-based website!

I know, that really is pretty funny XD

[jhall1.livejournal.com]

I skimmed through it, but I'm not sure that I understood it. One example of its deathless prose: User shall be responsible for the security (guessing attacks resistance) of the Authentication Details and its confidentiality. "Guessing attacks resistance"? I eventually worked out that it must mean "(guessing attacks) resistance" rather than "guessing (attacks resistance)".

[droxy.livejournal.com]

see my post on TOS, not deleting LJ

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

I skimmed through the translated English version, I can't read Russian. To be honest it is pretty much the same as the original LJ TOS, except a little clearer,I don't know if that was a byproduct of translation though.

[dreamflower]

I'm not going anywhere yet. LJ's my home, so things will have to be a lot weirder or dodgier than this to chase me off.

OTH, international politics being what they are, I DO plan to update my imports at DW more frequently, and get the rest of my comms over there! I've had sites important to me end up gone overnight before (remember GEOCities?)

The main thing I hated was the idea of purging anything that's been dormant for only six months or more! I've posted stuff at a lot of comms that have been inactive for a long time--I don't want them and their comments to just vanish into thin air! And what about the "memorial" sites, that are being left up as tributes to those who have passed?

*shakes head*

[kerravonsen]

I've posted stuff at a lot of comms that have been inactive for a long time--I don't want them and their comments to just vanish into thin air!
Exactly.

And what about the "memorial" sites, that are being left up as tributes to those who have passed?
Indeed.