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Old 11-22-2007, 04:11 PM
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Thanks for the MediaFire link...sounds alot easier to use than any other file sharing service. Should work great for MP3s and such. But beware…the "free" part of their service means submitting to this highly disturbing agreement:

"...You grant, transfer and assign to MediaFire and its successors, assigns and licensees....a fully-paid, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide right and license to publish, distribute, reproduce, transmit, use, translate and archive the Content."

Wow! So if you have original artwork, photography, writings, etc...THEY have the right, FOREVER, to publish your material, anywhere in the world, with no money paid to you. Ever. And you can't take it back ("irrevocable"). So much for "free".

Google also has this same ridiculous agreement if you use their "free" Office-like web apps. Anything you create using their service is basically Goggle's to use, publish, distribute and archive and Goggle becomes a legal copyright holder of YOUR work! (I found www.Zoho.com an even better web-based Office alternative, which doesn't claim rights to your work)

Jeeez!… that's like saying if you use Photoshop to fix a picture, Adobe magically has a copyright on your picture, or if you write a book in Word, Microsoft instantly get rights to your new novel...crazy, huh? But some of these new web-based services are basically saying that they DO have rights to anything you funnel through them. Not trying to be a party-crasher, just wanted to point out sometimes "free" isn't worth it! Anyways, I hope everyone has a safe and Happy Thanksgiving.
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