Comments on comments
p2pnet.net News:- Here’s a note on a couple of topics:
Comments
Giving p2pnet readers the ability to comment on articles is fairly new. We don’t moderate readers’ writes, nor do we see every one (although we look around from time to time and indeed, there have been a couple of good stories buried there : )
However, while effing and blinding is OK in context, we’re not allowing flat-out obsceneties
Nor are we allowing slurs against race or gender. Or free ads thinly disguised as comments, although mentions of new indie apps are OK.
If we see any examples of the above, we’ll trash them.
Registration
We have several interesting new features coming up in the next little while. People who register will get to learn about them.
People who register can also tick the Yes box to get our [ P ] 2 [P ] N [ E ] T . L [ E ] T newsletter, another fairly new arrival.
Privacy
As we say in the registration area, the information you provide is for us, and no one else. That’s a promise and a carved-in-rock guarantee. It’s not much anyway – just user ID, full name (or a nickname, if you’d prefer), email address, date of birth (or not : ). And that’s it.
April 23rd, 2004 at 1:14 am
No comment : )
April 23rd, 2004 at 3:46 pm
Keeping confidential reader info is a bit problematic. Sure you say for now you won’t give our info out. But, what happens if management or god-forbid, ownership changes. Will the new management, or owner be bound? I suspect not. The smell of money is too seductive.
April 23rd, 2004 at 10:08 pm
In the extremely unlikely event that ownership changes (like, when my seven-year-old daughter takes over in 10 years’ time : ) IT’D BE A CONDITION OF THE CHANGE THAT THESE TERMS ARE LOCKED IN SOLID.
April 24th, 2004 at 2:32 am
Well, for me, that would be the only concern. Now that the RIAA has the FBI doing its bidding and with the warez group being busted, everything is up in the air and nothing is safe at this time. We’re slowly being driven underground and there is no undergournd to escape to. Companies like Audible Magic seem to imply that even encryption will offer no protection as they can block programs that use encryption. Whats an evil-do’er to do, I ask you?
April 24th, 2004 at 11:08 pm
Audible Magic is to all intents and purposes an RIAA company, which means you can take any claims about its abilities with a shovel-full of salt, and then some.
Have a look here, and then do some poking around for yourself. (And if you come up with anything interesting, let us know : )