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For what it's worth, here is a follow-up on "scary legal stuff" from J D Sawyer. First, about the Dropbox Situation.
I rather like this guy's blog, and it seems worth following if you're interested in security and/or legal issues with "cloud computing": You are not the customer you are the product
He argues that you -- the artist, musician, writer -- who uses a "free" cloud service is not the customer, but the product. The customers are their advertisers or demographics collectors, people who are using your data as a product payload to push their advertising agenda.
If you're doing anything serious with large amounts of data, such as selling your art, books, or music, you'll probably be best off with a service you pay for. So, he pointed to this nice article from ECTimes... TOS Comparison .
And now, students: homework! It's time for you to go look at the DA terms of service, to make sure you understand them: about.deviantart.com/policy/se… particularly sections 4 and 16. Again, you'll see you're giving DA non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. Blah blah blah. Of course DA prefixes that with For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service. (You probably realize that resizing JPEG images to provide thumbnails, for example, is a form of preparing derivative work; so you can see why they need that ability.) To me, the terms seem reasonable, and the artist seems reasonably protected. In some of those other services you see phrases like sublicensable, perpetual, and non-revocable -- none of which DA claims. So far...
I rather like this guy's blog, and it seems worth following if you're interested in security and/or legal issues with "cloud computing": You are not the customer you are the product
He argues that you -- the artist, musician, writer -- who uses a "free" cloud service is not the customer, but the product. The customers are their advertisers or demographics collectors, people who are using your data as a product payload to push their advertising agenda.
If you're doing anything serious with large amounts of data, such as selling your art, books, or music, you'll probably be best off with a service you pay for. So, he pointed to this nice article from ECTimes... TOS Comparison .
And now, students: homework! It's time for you to go look at the DA terms of service, to make sure you understand them: about.deviantart.com/policy/se… particularly sections 4 and 16. Again, you'll see you're giving DA non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. Blah blah blah. Of course DA prefixes that with For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service. (You probably realize that resizing JPEG images to provide thumbnails, for example, is a form of preparing derivative work; so you can see why they need that ability.) To me, the terms seem reasonable, and the artist seems reasonably protected. In some of those other services you see phrases like sublicensable, perpetual, and non-revocable -- none of which DA claims. So far...
RIP Christo...
Haven't read much of the news about Christo's recent passing, but... My long-term followers may "recognize" him from some of the old spoofy deviations. RIP Christo, may your work live on and on... over hill and dale. http://www.openculture.com/2020/06/how-the-visionary-artist-christo-rip-changed-the-way-we-see-the-world.html
The US Election Fiasco Blah Blah
It's no secret around here on DA that I have a few opinions. Sometimes I post them for people to mull over.
Now, everyone's grandma has probably said, at one time or another: "If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all."
So I put on my thinking cap and decided to do that. After all, even loathsome pussy-grabbing troglodytes must have some redeeming characteristics, right? I mean, at least one, right? Hmmm.
The nicest thing I can say right now about president elect Trump is that he'll certainly be more undignified than his predecessor.
At least the new first lady will be an unrepentant plagiarist.
And Trump definitely has
Calling All Escapees: Please Check with Reception!
It's that time of year again, September 25. Some years ago on this date, I wailed into the night that wonderlustqueen (https://www.deviantart.com/wonderlustqueen) had disappeared. And VoodooPhone (https://www.deviantart.com/voodoophone) also disappeared, last seen on September 7, 2009. You can read about the beginnings of this tradition here.
Yes, I do mean tradition. Last year's invocation can be seen HERE.
Welcome, friends, to the show that never ends, the Fifth Annual Invocation of the Magical Disappearing Poets... A kind of low-budget Yodel Festival, you might say.
Hoya Oya, Ooly Patooly, Vim-vam Palooza and Gigamaroo...
This year, new to the missing pantheon is oaklungs (https://www.deviantart.com/oaklungs) a.k.a. "Charlotte" who completely
SROP New Year Predictions for 2016
Yes, it's that time of year again when the furry faced folks at SROP make a few annual predictions... Here is an amazing crop of events that you won't want to miss.
On October 17, the planet Saturn will come to a screeching halt. Astronomers will be baffled, and pundits will say it's a hoax. Meanwhile, incomprehensible chaos will ensue in the outer solar system, and the planet's flock of newly lost moons continue to wander aimlessly for years. Look for spectacular smash-ups and near-Earth encounters sometime early in the next millennium.
The planet Mercury will go into full retrograde on January 5, but nobody will notice anything awry excep
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I have always lived by the motto, if it's valuable in any way, don't put it on the internet. I think the amount of fraud and theft happening in electric-land might even take up more cyber-space than the porn now.