December 02, 2004

MSN Spaces (Soylent Green is People!)

Boing-boing assembles a set of opinions on Microsoft's new weblogging product, MSN Spaces. Here's one striking bit, noted by asciident (and forwarded to Bb by Paul Pellerito): The bottom of every page includes the fact that the user's weblog page is copyrighted by Microsoft. That claim is backed up in the MSN Spaces Terms of Use:

For materials you post or otherwise provide to Microsoft related to the MSN Web Sites (a 'Submission'), you grant Microsoft permission to (1) use, copy, distribute, transmit, publicly display, publicly perform, reproduce, edit, modify, translate and reformat your Submission, each in connection with the MSN Web Sites, and (2) sublicense these rights, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law. Microsoft will not pay you for your Submission.
Pellerito adds, "Makes me wanna yell STOP! Soylent green is people!"

[via Boing Boing]

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