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[sarettah]

Originally Posted by LadyMischief

A point I mentioned before. Terms of service cannot force you to break the law. Think of this example.

If you have a contract with someone else for them to kill that person, it may be a legally "binding" contract with the legalese, but could someone truly enforce a contract to break a law? If there are privacy laws involved (and that hasn't been confirmed or denied yet), no TOS in the world could force someone to break the law to comply.

But they can enforce the TOS until an authority tells them they cannot. It requires someone getting in front of a judge and all that.

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by sarettah

But they can enforce the TOS until an authority tells them they cannot. It requires someone getting in front of a judge and all that.

True. I don't understand why there isn't some universal terms of service that companies use as a basis. It seems the biggest problem in the domain market is that every company does things so dramatically differently, and their terms cover such a huge gammut of different things, most people couldn't even begin to understand the implications of the differences.

And yes, I know you're going to say "those people should get a lawyer", but realistically your average joe buying domains (adult or otherwise) wouldn't be able to do that.

[Peaches]

Originally Posted by LadyMischief

And yes, I know you're going to say "those people should get a lawyer", but realistically your average joe buying domains (adult or otherwise) wouldn't be able to do that.

You shouldn't be running a business if you can't afford a lawyer and turning off a domain is only going to hurt you financially if you're running a business.

[LadyMischief]

Originally Posted by Peaches

You shouldn't be running a business if you can't afford a lawyer and turning off a domain is only going to hurt you financially if you're running a business.

I agree with you. However this isn't always the case and it's those that DO NOT practice a business as a business that threaten those of us that conduct ourselves in a businesslike fashion. Unfortunately the lowest common demoninator thing applies here. What happens to them eventually trickles down (or rather, up in this case). I hate constantly suffering and having to change the way I do business because some idiot who can't bother to get a lawyer does something stupid. But if those things do happen, I guess we all have to be prepared.

[Hammer]

LMFAO. He got an email about the content on his sites and went to GFY because "I always figured that GFY is the place to find out information on everything".

Another typical GFY moron.

[Jace]

Originally Posted by Hammer

LMFAO. He got an email about the content on his sites and went to GFY because "I always figured that GFY is the place to find out information on everything".

Another typical GFY moron.

yeah, I still don't understand why someone would instantly run to GFY first when getting an email like that?

FIRST thing I would have done would be to call DirectNic, instantly, and talk with someone in charge.....seems like he waited til the 2nd or 3rd til he even tried that