(And could I possibly have used the word 'link' any more times in my previous comment?)
Yeah, FanLib is ... well, 'desperately naive and ignorant' would be as far as I could possibly go in giving them the benefits of the doubt. More than anything else, the way they're going about things reminds me of the dotcom boom back in '98 or so (which I JUST missed out on, damn comp sci degree taking too long!) There's a distinct air of 'Step 1: put stuff online; Step 2; ???; Step 3: profit!' Like all the guys who thought they could make their fortune with www.dentalflossonline.com - logic and business plans need not apply - we don't need none of that stuff when we've got venture capital and enthusiasm!
But they do have some thoroughly modern lawyers in there, obviously. The terms of that ToS are as nasty as any I've ever seen...
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Yeah, FanLib is ... well, 'desperately naive and ignorant' would be as far as I could possibly go in giving them the benefits of the doubt. More than anything else, the way they're going about things reminds me of the dotcom boom back in '98 or so (which I JUST missed out on, damn comp sci degree taking too long!) There's a distinct air of 'Step 1: put stuff online; Step 2; ???; Step 3: profit!' Like all the guys who thought they could make their fortune with www.dentalflossonline.com - logic and business plans need not apply - we don't need none of that stuff when we've got venture capital and enthusiasm!
But they do have some thoroughly modern lawyers in there, obviously. The terms of that ToS are as nasty as any I've ever seen...