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[imbri]

Did someone say civil disobedience?

[bill]

[FLmutant]

[addlepated]

I smell subversives!

[i_monk]

Five little letters solve this issue, in my mind: T. I. N. A. G.

Everything outside the curtain, including the WHOIS registration, is in-game until you find cause to smack players on the nose in an in-game manner.

Confused newbies? That's for the players and community at large to sort out for themselves. You can make an approachable ARG without putting a THIS IS NOT REAL! CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT ARGS! link at the top of each page.

[MageSteff]

[addlepated]

Something to ponder:

http://foetry.com/newbb/viewtopic.php?p=906&

"Despite paying Domains by Proxy an additional fee to register foetry.com anonymously, they responded to a letter from a personal injury lawyer, and canceled my registration without notifying me of a complaint. Let that sink in: a personal injury lawyer's letter is all it took for DBP to cancel my anonymity."

Kinda scary.

[vpisteve]

/me calls ozy.

[Ozy_y2k]

Interestingly, no one is REQUIRED to notify you of this sort of thing beforehand, unless it's in their TOS that they will agree to do so, in order to allow you the opportunity to object. Sometimes a simple, innocuous subpoena is all it takes to make some smaller ISPs start sweating bullets, because they can't afford the litigation fees.

So......LET THE LAWSUITS BEGIN!!! WOO HOO!!!! FREE FOR ALL!!!!!

Ahem. Okay, I'm calm. F'real.

[Phaedra]

[FLmutant]

Now there's an idea for an ARG ... an ARG focused entirely on the Collective Litigator instead of the Collective Detective (where the puzzles tell you who you have to sue or subpeona next to advance the storyline.)

Wait. That's too much like real life. Toss that idea on the "so so" pile for me, would you?

[krystyn]

Interesting set of links and discussion over at Metafilter re: Domains by Proxy and GoDaddy.

Definitely an FYI, for those of you feeling secure using their services.

[Ozy_y2k]

With all due respect to the Foetry guy, he's kind of an idiot.

"Illusory contract", my ass. This smacks of the sort of person who's read a paragraph or two online of basic contract law and now suddenly he thinks he's a junior lawyer. GoDaddy's contract is no more illusory, due to its ability to provide indemnfication/insulation for the ISP as a result of pending or threatened lawsuits, than half a million other commercial note agreements out there which allow the contracts or debts to be immediately cancelable or callable as a result of pending OR THREATENED litigation, bankruptcy, arbitration or an assignment for the benefit of creditors. I regularly include this boilerplate language in my contracts and TOS's all the time, as do hundreds of thousands of other lawyers, and it's almost never deemed unenforceable except for good cause.

Fool.

[konamouse]

[Dorkmaster]