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Posted by Bee K
on 11/4/2009, 1:17 pm, in reply to "Re: This happened to me"
Message modified by user Bee K 11/4/2009, 2:12 pm
2. Term. This Agreement, and any posted revision to this Agreement, shall remain in full force and effect while you use the MySpace Services or are a Member. You may terminate your Membership at any time, for any reason, by following the instructions on the Member's Account Settings page. MySpace may terminate your Membership at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. Furthermore, MySpace reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject, refuse to post or remove any posting (including, without limitation, private messages, emails and instant messages (collectively, “messages”)) by you, or to deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MySpace Services at any time, for any or no reason, with or without prior notice or explanation, and without liability. In addition, MySpace reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reassign or rename your profile URL. MySpace expressly reserves the right to remove your profile and/or deny, restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to all or any part of the MySpace Services if MySpace determines, in its sole discretion, that you have violated this Agreement or pose a threat to MySpace, its employees, business partners, Users and/or the public. Even after Membership is terminated, this Agreement will remain in effect, including, without limitation, Sections 5-18.
In other words, Myspace is not an arts-friendly site. It's free, but there are terms and as long as the one clicks on the "I have read and agree" button, that's it. I kind of feel like contracts and our duty to read them over, including updates and amendments, are something we need to stand behind. They can work for the big fish and the small fries alike. Writing the people at Myspace is a good idea, but they haven't shown themselves willing to make decisions based on moral grounds on the past.
I remember when Ryan Adams got popular there were issues with the guy who owns ryanadams.com. I think the record company tried to get the name, but they couldn't do it and ended up going with ryan-adams.com. It pays to pay for the rights to your website name. $30 a year, and you can link that name to anywhere you want. You can link it to a myspace page, a wordpress blog...anything. Chris, if I were you I'd purchase a URL for the name of your choice and from here on out just use that...where the URL directs to can change over time whenever you want.
"Power doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt power." - William Gaddis
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