My Way or my way… Don’t forget to click accept
Did you know upon signing up for World of Warcraft your chat
may be “Your written communication may be
subject to review, modification, and/or deletion by Blizzard Entertainment
without notice to you. Additionally, you hereby acknowledge that Blizzard
Entertainment is under no obligation to monitor Chat, and you engage in Chat at
your own risk. “? I didn’t think so. Also “no one has the right to "sell" Blizzard Entertainment's
content, except Blizzard Entertainment! So Blizzard Entertainment does not
recognize any property claims outside of World of Warcraft or the purported
sale, gift or trade in the "real world" of anything related to World
of Warcraft. Accordingly, you may not sell or purchase virtual items for
"real" money or exchange items outside of World of Warcraft. Please
note that Blizzard is entitled to and will prevent any such illegal sales.”
Now if you and your friend have struck up a pretty good deal that, just so
happens to involve “real money” I don’t see where the problem is. That’s because
there is no problem, “Note that Blizzard
Entertainment either owns, or has exclusively licensed, all of the content
which appears in World of Warcraft.” Blizzard Entertainment (owners of WoW)just
want a slice of the pie which doesn’t belong to them which in fact isn’t true,
Blizzard Entertainment have the rights to do what they please regarding your
WoW user as it clearly states in their T&C:
Not only were the terms and condition dreadfully difficult
and, long to read (hard to read due to the font being in blue on top of a black
background which, made my eyes blur sometimes whilst reading.)I didn’t agree
with all of the rules that had stated out and if I wanted to start playing
World of Warcraft, there would be no way possible for me to negotiate those
terms and conditions what so ever.
So what can we do? We all need to stand up and be united
against these senseless ways of agreeing a contract presently. We can do this
by conducting a peaceful protest march towards outside the House of Lords,
where people all over the country can then air their thoughts out on what
exactly they feel about just clicking a box to agree with hundreds of rules.
There needs to be some kind of system that allows each and every person to come
to their personal terms with the company they are looking to sign up with. We
are all different in the world so why should we be allowed different T&Cs
which are very reasonable between both us and, the company doing the selling.
When I was in my early teens I signed up to dozens of
websites without even glancing at the T&Cs and thought nothing of it.
Obviously I wasn’t the only one in the world to have agreed to something I completely
didn’t read, many kids the same age as me or even, younger than I was have made
that same mistake as me. To be honest though, how many children are do they
think is actually going to be read through all of the T&Cs and, fully understand just exactly what it means?
Blizzard know the vast majority won’t
and the very few that do read it, can’t possibly do anything to change a rule
even if they wanted to. We all need to voice our thoughts whether it is online,
protest or directly said to the MPs change needs to happen.
To support us and get control of our lives’ again checkout
our website: www.mytermsandyourconditions.com
. No T&Cs to be read here, ‘just be yourself’ is our small print. Twitter
and Facebook both are using the same cunning T&Cs where you have to read a
long list of their terms and conditions so we neglected to use it. As we read
Facebook’s T&Cs we found out that; “For
content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos
(IP content), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to
your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive,
transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP
content that you post on or in connection with Facebook (IP License)”. That
is clearly stating that they own everything we post up on ‘our’ Facebook wall
also including our pictures, messages and videos. So you might be thinking “okay
I don’t like that, I am going to delete my Facebook account”. But think again here’s
the rest of rule 1 and rule 2 “This IP
License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your
content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it.
When you delete IP
content, it is deleted in a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a
computer. However, you understand that removed content may persist in backup
copies for a reasonable period of time (but will not be available to others). ”
So even when you try to delete your account you can’t. And just who exactly is
the backup files for if our friends can no longer view them? A lot of questions
need to be answered for so please, join us today to put an end to these
irrational rules which are playing with our lives from a simple tick of a box.
Our website: www.mytermsandyourconditions.com
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