The company has admitted that the flaw was the result of a coding and configuration error on Hulu’s side. The company has denied that the issue is the result of hacking, other third party actions, or a vulnerability in Facebook Connect.
If everyone agrees...
Yeah good luck with that.
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Slashdot (and whole Geeknet) license agreement is actually even wider than Dropbox, as they don't even limit it to as-required-by-service.
Just ask yourself why Slashdot has no such agreement. Somehow Slashdot manages to scrape by without this "essential" clause.
You might want to read Slashdot terms before making such statements because
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Slashdot (and whole Geeknet) license agreement is actually even wider than Dropbox, as they don't even limit it to as-required-by-service.
I don't see any such disclaimer at slashdot. If I did I certainly wouldn't be posting short science fiction stories in my slashdot journal; a couple hundred more of these and I'll publish them in book form (so far there are only four).
Then you might want to read slashdot (and Geeknet) terms and stop posting because:
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They all provide features that allow users to share content with other users.
So you think they need rights to derive new works from your data? Wat [sic]?
Like for example scale images in the gallery, or if they decide to add such, convert PDF documents to HTML pages so you can link to them more easily.
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