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Anyone that responds to this thread legally agrees to surrender all intellectual property posted or mentioned by them in any manner on the internet messaging fo
by hpoe 6y ago
Anyone that responds to this thread legally agrees to surrender all intellectual property posted or mentioned by them in any manner on the internet messaging forum hackernews located at news dot ycombinator dot com, hereunder referred to as the interweb place, will be the sole property of hpoe and those he chooses to designate. These terms may not be modified, altered, or amended except with written agreement of both parties, that is notarized and approved by a Form 23-19B.
- c54 6y agoHey wai- ah crap
- hpoe 6y agoFollow up: Many users of hackernews have expressed their disagreement and disapproval of our TOS. After careful investigation, we realize that our original policy was ill conceived and worded in such a manner that people were aware of the vigorous bodily actions which we were performing on them. Due to this we offer our heartfelt apologies, and a guarantee that we will rewrite this policy in a manner that is so obfuscated that no person can realize they are being thoroughly hosed until our lawyers descend. As part of our apology we are offering a coupon that entitles all parties who were effected to 10% off a year subscription to our service provided they will sign a Form 24-62C releasing hpoe and affiliated parties from all damages done to them or their relatives past, present or future, in perpetuity. Thank you our customers mean so much to us.
- beckingz 6y agoAt least it's not arbitration.
- saagarjha 6y agohttps://www.ycombinator.com/legal#tou https://www.ycombinator.com/legal#tou
- beckingz 6y ago... Well at least we can overwhelm them with cases.
- komali2 6y agoThey should remove this portion of the Terms, it's immoral.
- waterhouse 6y agoBack in the good old days... http://web.archive.org/web/20141020194316/https://www.ycombinator.com/legal http://web.archive.org/web/20141020194316/https://www.ycombi... Terms of Use When you click on a link, our server will send you the corresponding page.
- LMYahooTFY 6y agoWow, that's beautiful and hilarious.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt seems like they tightened up their legalese somewhere in early 2017 :(
- danShumway 6y agoThat's disappointing to see. I joined HN before that arbitration agreement was instated, and it somehow slipped past me until now that it was added. If that agreement was present when I first joined, I might not have joined at all. It's blatantly out of step with HN's community in general, and it makes me lose a bit of respect for YCombinator.
- Wheaties466 6y agostop, it hurts.
- chasing 6y agoYeah, well anyone reading this message legally agrees to send me $20 in the mail.
- londons_explore 6y agoPlz send mailing address.
- KajMagnus 6y agoIs it $20 each time I read it or just once?
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoI wonder if you could get me extradited, MPAA managed with a UK national (who wasn't even breaking the law in the UK; they were hosting links). Particularly interested in of they're extradite now, with Covid19 and all.
- s_gourichon 6y agoNot sure this can work, but something similar did work. Circa 2000 a French guy wrote a web page with some legal text and an e-mail address. The legal text said that writing to the e-mail address implied acceptation of a processing fee (about 10$ IIRC). It went as intended: spam robots harvested the address, sent spam. The guy picked a spam e-mail that could be traced to a sender he could sue. He did and the judge ruled in his favour. Can't find a reference now, but I remember seeing a scan of the court ruling.
- hprotagonist 6y ago“But the plans were on display…” “On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.” “That’s the display department.” “With a flashlight.” “Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.” “So had the stairs.” “But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?” “Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
- squarefoot 6y agoAt least Vogon poetry is less harmful than Disney drones tweets.
- zentiggr 6y agoPerfect quote, Hiro :)
- rswail 6y agoThe man from Snowcrash quoting HHGTG about a Disney Star Wars promotion. We've reached peak nerd.
- pier25 6y agoWhat if I end all my comments with: © Pier25 Huh? Checkmate!
- hpoe 6y agoThank you for your question, as a result we now legally own Pier25 and all affiliated intellectual property. Thank you for your time and service.
- theseanstewart 6y agoWe've got a 23-19!
- anoncake 6y ago> Anyone that responds to this thread legally > You agree to not use the Site to: email or otherwise upload [...] software viruses X5O!P%@AP[4\PZX54(P^)7CC)7}$EICAR-STANDARD-ANTIVIRUS-TEST-FILE!$H+H*
- KingFelix 6y agoAlso, I believe the secondary form required is Form 27B/6
- holler 6y agohaha, this reminds me of those posts you'd see on facebook all the time from uninformed users: """I do not give Facebook or any entities associated with Facebook permission to use my pictures, information, messages or posts, both past and future. With this statement, I give notice to Facebook it is strictly forbidden to disclose, copy, distribute, or take any other action against me based on this profile and/or its contents. The content of this profile is private and confidential information. """ It's kind of funny when it's a big corporation doing it.
- rswail 6y agoYou left out mentioning the "Rome Statute" and Sydney University.