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np.Resuscitate
United States60 Posts
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Mulloy
United States86 Posts
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Whole
United States6046 Posts
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JWD
United States12607 Posts
On July 10 2010 03:59 smileyyy wrote: ToS != Law. They can write in their ToS whatever they want it does not make it a law =). Um yes... but if you agree to let Blizzard do something with your personal information, you cannot then win on a claim against Blizzard for doing that thing. | ||
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Sanguinarius
United States3427 Posts
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Phail111
Canada21 Posts
No one liked the ID system that was in place currently, or going to be in place on release. So they release a statement for the worst ID system to date, and no matter what they do after that we are going to love it. | ||
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smileyyy
Germany1816 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:06 JWD wrote: Um yes... but if you agree to let Blizzard do something with your personal information, you cannot then win on a claim against Blizzard for doing that thing. I can agree to it but it does not make the procedure legal. Whether it is in accord with the law is up to a judge to decide in the end :o. I doubt it would have passed in Germany our politician are on a user privacy train and bash google/facebook etc all day long ^^ | ||
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JWD
United States12607 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:12 smileyyy wrote: I can agree to it but it does not make the procedure legal. Whether it is in accord with the law is up to a judge to decide in the end :o.^ Yeah but judges have to apply the law lol, they can't just order a company not to do something because they don't like it. | ||
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
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Ababoba
Finland11 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:18 JinMaikeul wrote: LOL To all the naysayers, bitching, raging and moaning WORKS! Depends on the scale of bitching, raging and moaning. We still aren't getting classic chat-rooms. | ||
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FrickenHamster
United States40 Posts
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ta2
125 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:06 JWD wrote: Um yes... but if you agree to let Blizzard do something with your personal information, you cannot then win on a claim against Blizzard for doing that thing. The friends-of-friends having access to your Real ID and that exploit where you were automatically your own friend are lawsuits waiting to happen. I'm sure we haven't heard the last of that. As for agreeing to ToS, I'm sure there are loopholes whereby Blizzard would not be immune from prosecution. For example, if a child had full access to his own account (maybe he pays with gametime cards etc), and agrees to the ToS - it's not legally binding since a child cannot make a legal contract. If I have a Battle.net account that I haven't logged into since 6 months ago, it gets hacked, the hacker then agrees to the new ToS, and uses the account for spamming. Dunno which of the above traps they could fall into, but for sure I don't think they had all their bases covered. | ||
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LegendaryZ
United States1583 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:20 Ababoba wrote: Depends on the scale of bitching, raging and moaning. We still aren't getting classic chat-rooms. Psshh.. merely a sign that we haven't raged enough about it...  | ||
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sotmh
United States41 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
http://forums.wow-europe.com/thread.html?topicId=13816839821&sid=1 Hey Listen G, we realized we f00ked up and we ain't doin the real name bullshiz anymo. Yo but we still wanna make it a betta place cause it straight sucks. We got other new shiz we wanna do. Yo can give or take away props on peeps to regulate dumb niggaz. Also, we ain't doin the same shiz everywhere, we keepin it separate. We still think facebook is hot nigga! We wanna keep messin with this crap fo a minute tho. By the way, I wanna say that I was jus tryin to hustle some paper dawg so I'm sorry if I offended you nig nogs. I'm only changin my shiz cause I woulda lost on on more chedda in the long run prolly. Glad you niggaz spoke up, cause if not, I'd be sellin woof tickets all day, word. Peace Out Mike Morhaime CEO & Cofounder Blizzard Entertainment | ||
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ta2
125 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:18 JWD wrote: Yeah but judges have to apply the law lol, they can't just order a company not to do something because they don't like it. Also, Facebook makes you agree to their ToS, but that didn't stop the Canadian govt. ordering Facebook to make changes. | ||
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risk.nuke
Sweden2825 Posts
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smileyyy
Germany1816 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:18 JWD wrote: Yeah but judges have to apply the law lol, they can't just order a company not to do something because they don't like it. Since my english is bad I will try to explain it with an example. I open an online store and write in my ToS that if a customer wants to return a package then he must pay the shipment cost .!. Lots of shops did this in Germany. Few days ago a court ruled this procedure to be against the law. --> My ToS is now "illegal" and not binding to the customer | ||
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jazzy3001
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JWD
United States12607 Posts
On July 10 2010 04:28 smileyyy wrote: Since my english is bad I will try to explain it with an example. I open an online store and write in my ToS that if a customer wants to return a package then he must pay the shipment cost .!. Lots of shops did this in germany Few days ago a court ruled this procedure to be against the law. --> My ToS is now "illegal" and not binding to the customer It seems unlikely to me that this could happen in an American court, unless there is some complexity to these cases that we're not getting at (for example some statute regulating whether companies can make their customers pay shipping costs on returns, or whatever). And your English seems perfect to me  I guess the bottom line is that I know of no US law that would prevent Blizzard from requiring real names to post on its forums, and I have a hunch that Blizzard would get lawyers competent enough to craft a legal, binding ToS that gave it the right to publish real names. Written agreements are very powerful in court. | ||
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