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posted by [personal profile] pmsumner at 12:52am on 18/09/2002

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.

AppName: livejournalu.exe AppVer: 1.0.0.1 ModName: mfc42u.dll
ModVer: 6.0.8665.0 Offset: 00017faf

C:\DOCUME~1\Phil-99\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER6.tmp.dir00\appcompat.txt

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>
<DATABASE>
<EXE NAME="LiveJournalU.exe" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_PRIVACY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="LiveJournal-1.4.7-orig.exe" SIZE="438272" CHECKSUM="0x9F8A018A" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.4.7.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.4.7.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="1, 4, 7, 0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="LiveJournal Win32-MFC Application" COMPANY_NAME="bradfitz.com, inc. (original) | liquified.visions (current)" PRODUCT_NAME="LiveJournal" FILE_VERSION="1, 4, 7, 0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="LiveJournal.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="LJ" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2000" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.4.7.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.4.7.0" LINK_DATE="03/18/2002 01:21:39" UPTO_LINK_DATE="03/18/2002 01:21:39" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="LiveJournalU.exe" SIZE="565248" CHECKSUM="0x6B85200F" BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.0.1" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.0.1" PRODUCT_VERSION="1, 0, 0, 1" FILE_DESCRIPTION="Semagic LiveJournal Client" COMPANY_NAME="Alexey Semenov" PRODUCT_NAME="Semagic LiveJournal Client" FILE_VERSION="1, 0, 0, 1" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="LiveJournal.exe" INTERNAL_NAME="LJ" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) 2002" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x4" VERFILETYPE="0x1" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="1.0.0.1" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="1.0.0.1" LINK_DATE="07/30/2002 13:09:49" UPTO_LINK_DATE="07/30/2002 13:09:49" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="mfc42u.dll" SIZE="995384" CHECKSUM="0x27B2121C" BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.8665.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.4.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.400" FILE_DESCRIPTION="MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft (R) Visual C++" FILE_VERSION="6.00.8665.0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="MFC42.DLL" INTERNAL_NAME="MFCDLL" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1993-1998" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xFA4F4" LINKER_VERSION="0x60000" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.8665.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.4.0" LINK_DATE="08/18/2001 05:33:31" UPTO_LINK_DATE="08/18/2001 05:33:31" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="uninst.exe" SIZE="35805" CHECKSUM="0x54A25A3E" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/07/2002 01:42:34" UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/07/2002 01:42:34" />
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="Uninstall.exe" SIZE="36272" CHECKSUM="0xC494FFB" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0x0" LINKER_VERSION="0x0" LINK_DATE="02/07/2002 01:31:06" UPTO_LINK_DATE="02/07/2002 01:31:06" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="MFC42u.DLL" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="mfc42u.dll" SIZE="995384" CHECKSUM="0x27B2121C" BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.8665.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.4.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.400" FILE_DESCRIPTION="MFCDLL Shared Library - Retail Version" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft (R) Visual C++" FILE_VERSION="6.00.8665.0" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="MFC42.DLL" INTERNAL_NAME="MFCDLL" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp. 1993-1998" VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xFA4F4" LINKER_VERSION="0x60000" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="6.0.8665.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="6.0.4.0" LINK_DATE="08/18/2001 05:33:31" UPTO_LINK_DATE="08/18/2001 05:33:31" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
<EXE NAME="kernel32.dll" FILTER="GRABMI_FILTER_THISFILEONLY">
<MATCHING_FILE NAME="kernel32.dll" SIZE="926720" CHECKSUM="0x6262EEA5" BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.0" BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.0" PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.0" FILE_DESCRIPTION="Windows NT BASE API Client DLL" COMPANY_NAME="Microsoft Corporation" PRODUCT_NAME="Microsoft® Windows® Operating System" FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.0 (xpclient.010817-1148)" ORIGINAL_FILENAME="kernel32" INTERNAL_NAME="kernel32" LEGAL_COPYRIGHT="© Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved." VERFILEDATEHI="0x0" VERFILEDATELO="0x0" VERFILEOS="0x40004" VERFILETYPE="0x2" MODULE_TYPE="WIN32" PE_CHECKSUM="0xE8792" LINKER_VERSION="0x50001" UPTO_BIN_FILE_VERSION="5.1.2600.0" UPTO_BIN_PRODUCT_VERSION="5.1.2600.0" LINK_DATE="08/18/2001 05:33:02" UPTO_LINK_DATE="08/18/2001 05:33:02" VER_LANGUAGE="English (United States) [0x409]" />
</EXE>
</DATABASE>

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posted by [personal profile] emma at 04:55pm on 17/09/2002
/me cackles wildly

see that second paragraph you quoted from the TOS? that's why [livejournal.com profile] visions is so funny. he clearly didn't read the TOS before he signed up and started volunteering :p
 
posted by [identity profile] rahaeli.livejournal.com at 05:14pm on 17/09/2002
The work-for-hire clause is to prevent things like what happened to AOL, with volunteer chat room administrators claiming after the fact that they were owed thousands of dollars.

A few other people haven't read the ToS either ;)
 
posted by [identity profile] phil99.livejournal.com at 02:23am on 19/09/2002
Yep, makes sense. I just hadn't remembered reading it on my last trawl through the ToS. It's something that everyone should do every now and then, check the terms on things that you use to write/store stuff...

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