OK. I was talking with someone the other day in a comment thread about LJ Security, and how that if anyone didn't want their journal to be found, how they should just quit whining and go write a paper diary, and put it in a safe deposit box somewhere. I also said that anyone who thinks putting something on the web is private in any fashion is mad. They disagreed with me and said that they should be able to keep an online journal private, and didn't believe what I said about security not being infallible.
http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos.bml
LiveJournal.com reserves the right, without limitation except by law, to serve user Content on the web according to the security provisions set forth by the author.
I win :-P
Something of interest to me, that I didn't know...
By accepting these Terms of Service, any LiveJournal.com member agrees that the intellectual content created as a result of volunteer work for LiveJournal.com constitutes a work for hire and that all intellectual property rights in said content shall vest in LiveJournal.com at the time that it is created to the extent permitted by law.
Not that it bothers me at all... just a curiosity.
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ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017faf
C:\DOCUME~1\Phil-99\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER6.tmp.dir00\appcompat.txt
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see that second paragraph you quoted from the TOS? that's why
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A few other people haven't read the ToS either ;)
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