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since i always have a bad feeling when i delete spam from the puredata.info portal, i would like people to accept a "terms of use" text on registration.

when might this be of importance:

- deleting spam content

- deleting spamming users

- deleting automatically created users (this should be handled by captchas, but spammers always find a way to circumvent protective stuff)

- when the server goes down and data loss occurs (puredata.info is _not_ a backup server for your videos)

- inactive users

 - a lot of users only create an account and that is the only time we hear from them

 - i don't know whether this is really problematic, but it might bear a security risks and a ressource risk.

 - otoh, what makes "activity"? a login once a year? SubVersion activiy?

- copyright problems of content published on this site:

 - what happens if people publish content that they must not

 - what happens if people publish their own content under a restrictive license?

 - ideally the entire content at puredata.info would be under a free license, with a default to some CC license but people are free to choose another free license.


why this sucks:

- how "free" can a "terms of use" be?

- quite bureaucratic, ain't it?


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  TermsOfUse