• ConstipatedWatson@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Unfortunately, when we sign up to their EULAs we “willingly” give everything up… So technically it ends up being legally theirs 🥺

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      9 months ago

      Not quite, but pretty close. You still hold copyrights in anything protected by copyright for example. They just have a perpetual license to use your work. We really ought to be working on laws to protect privacy and limit corp content piracy without explicitly clear opt-ins.

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        9 months ago

        Maybe we should charge them for emails they send us. Want me to sign up for a news letter, that will be 20€ per email. Or something.

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          9 months ago

          Back in the paper spam days, some folk would stuff the “postage paid” envelopes with junk and mail them back to troll the companies. Setting up a junk address with an autoresponder would be pleasing, but probably would get tagged illegal.

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            9 months ago

            Shame, its legal when big corp does it but illegal when I do it. This always seems weird to me.