This was just brought to my attention...
And adds more fuel to this fire, unfortunately.
A user contacted me about the recent changes to the Terms of Use. The Demand Media representatives - some of whom have chimed into this thread as well as the thread ongoing in Photography - claimed that their legal department had been working on the new terms of use for Airliners.net for weeks.
The terms of use of the following Demand Media websites are IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF AIRLINERS.NET. They simply did a "cut and paste" of their other site's terms of use!
From AnswerBag.com: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/15 (nearly identical)
From Greencar.com: http://www.greencar.com/termsofservice (dated NOVEMBER 30, 2007)
From SoYouWanna.com: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/info/terms.html (very similar)
From eHow.com: http://www.ehow.com/terms_use.aspx (nearly identical, dated JUNE 1, 2007)
So, it took their "legal" department WEEKS to cut and paste together the new terms of use?
And adds more fuel to this fire, unfortunately.
A user contacted me about the recent changes to the Terms of Use. The Demand Media representatives - some of whom have chimed into this thread as well as the thread ongoing in Photography - claimed that their legal department had been working on the new terms of use for Airliners.net for weeks.
The terms of use of the following Demand Media websites are IDENTICAL TO THOSE OF AIRLINERS.NET. They simply did a "cut and paste" of their other site's terms of use!
From AnswerBag.com: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/15 (nearly identical)
From Greencar.com: http://www.greencar.com/termsofservice (dated NOVEMBER 30, 2007)
From SoYouWanna.com: http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/info/terms.html (very similar)
From eHow.com: http://www.ehow.com/terms_use.aspx (nearly identical, dated JUNE 1, 2007)
So, it took their "legal" department WEEKS to cut and paste together the new terms of use?
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