Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/30

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Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: GeoCities users take note
From: dmorton@journalist.co.uk (David Morton)
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 1:01 +0100 (BST)

Tim A writes:

> basically, it seems Yahoo are going for a complete grab of rights from
> anyone who has images on Geocities (a lot of photographers and artists).
> And, when they unilaterally changed the agreement, they won't allow you 
> to
> get onto your site to modify it or remove your images, without 
> accepting the
> agreement.

It's *staggering* isn't it? You can imagine the board meeting:

"OK, we're doing really well, by market cap we're bigger than Boeing. But 
all this success is just boring...now what can we do to *really* piss the 
users off?"

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