nekatreven
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Say what you want, I would have participated enthusiastically...
BUT one of the last pages in the sign-up (the legal stuff) basically says that they can do whatever they want with your "Personal Attributes" (voice traits, image, statements) and the same for any minors under your care and any participants in the party.
The last item in a long list mentioned "or other personal information", and I'm not a lawyer so I can't be 100% sure if the limits on this "license" they wanted me to grant them (which it explicitly states never expires) made it only related to the party or not.
From what I could tell...if they wanted to, they could post your address and phone number in a commercial and tell the world to contact you and tell you how great Windows is, and you couldn't do anything.
Its not like they'd do that, or that I even suspect they intend to abuse the information. I just don't think its wise to consent to an overly broad statement that MS Inc, and HouseParty, Inc. can practically own your soul so you can save a few hundred bucks on Windows.
Its too bad cause if it hadn't been so vague in its "we own you"-ness I think it might have been cool to sign up and see what happened
BUT one of the last pages in the sign-up (the legal stuff) basically says that they can do whatever they want with your "Personal Attributes" (voice traits, image, statements) and the same for any minors under your care and any participants in the party.
The last item in a long list mentioned "or other personal information", and I'm not a lawyer so I can't be 100% sure if the limits on this "license" they wanted me to grant them (which it explicitly states never expires) made it only related to the party or not.
From what I could tell...if they wanted to, they could post your address and phone number in a commercial and tell the world to contact you and tell you how great Windows is, and you couldn't do anything.
Its not like they'd do that, or that I even suspect they intend to abuse the information. I just don't think its wise to consent to an overly broad statement that MS Inc, and HouseParty, Inc. can practically own your soul so you can save a few hundred bucks on Windows.
Its too bad cause if it hadn't been so vague in its "we own you"-ness I think it might have been cool to sign up and see what happened
- no amount of money can ever cure the retard in him.
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