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Posted by Brigman on :

Anyone with any pages on Geocities had best check this out!

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html

It's for real guys!

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Peace!
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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

What the? Grrr! They do not own my intellectual properties. I speed-read that fine print and must have missed that bit.

I certainly hope they change that.

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Doctor: "Run along. I'll reattach any severed limbs. Just don't misplace them." (Voyager: "The Killing Game")

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

Same here. Quite frankly, I'm beginning to get sick and tired of GeoCities.

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Herbert: Bless you, my child.
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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

*cancels the two GeoCities accounts he had*

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

If anyone with a Trek-related Geocities site wants to bail and needs a place to stay, email me... Will be hosting refugee Geocities accounts.

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Charles Capps
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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Or try

Fortune City

They aren't bad, once you get used the the friggin unannounced upgrades.

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

Darnitt, my ENTIRE page was there..... And it's one HUGE page, too! .....

What's worse, is I tried to connect with the FTP client to get all the stuff out and onto my compy, and it won't even let me do THAT......

*CURSES!*

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

So this means that if I transfer my stuff out of there, Geocities and Yahoo will sue my pants off? Sure looks like it.

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Posted by Holst on :

Good thing I use Xoom. It's also faster without the annoying pop-up banner. Yes, I know that xoom uses a frame to advertise, but at least there's no window popping up.

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

No, that means anything there now they OWN. You can remove it whenever you want... That's what I've done.

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Charles Capps
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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

what the?? they've rigged it so you can't FTP it off? or could we never use ftp to begin with? *going to take it down b4 she goes to bed tonight*

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Posted by Cargile (Member # 45) on :

I'm FTPing mine (Starship Designs) to and archive folder on my harddrive. I better be able to delete my material from their database!

And thanks Brigman for bringing this up. I would have never known otherwise.

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[This message has been edited by Cargile (edited June 30, 1999).]

Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Yes, many thanks, Brigman.

*contemplates what to do now...*

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Doctor: "Run along. I'll reattach any severed limbs. Just don't misplace them." (Voyager: "The Killing Game")

Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

But the point is that you can't use your material from GeoCities anywhere else? And they say they are doing this to protect themselves from copyright infringements lawsuits. Someone tell me how doing such a thing to their users achieves this.

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Posted by Elim Garak (Member # 14) on :

Tahna: As far as I know, there is no way at all that helps.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

*Points at Geocities High Muckety-Mucks*

Garrisonspeak: You go to Hell! You go to Hell and you DIE!!!

And I don't even HAVE a web page!

Don't stand for this crap! Fire all missiles! Somebody dust off the Neutron Bomb!

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

*moves to tripod*

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

Cargile: I didn't have any problem at all deleting all my files from my editor. the question remains, however, did they back up the server with all of our stuff so that they would have copies of it after people left? hmmmmmmmmmmm...kinda makes you wonder, huh?

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Jubes and the rest of you: Tripod has the SAME POLICY... Beware!

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Posted by Brigman on :

Cargile, Garak, guys, no problem... you're welcome. A friend passed it on to me and I felt that all here in the forums should know. I don't HAVE any Geocities pages but if I did, boy would I worry.

For those of you encountering FTP troubles, here's why. In order to access your pages to delete them, you must now sign an agreement with Geocities that your pages belong to them. In order to access them for ANY reason, for that matter.

My advice is do what my friend did: Agree, log on, and delete all the files from their server. Then cancel your account, and let them know WHY. However I am neither a lawyer nor a network dude, so...

One thing I WOULD recommend is, spread the word.

Good luck!

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Peace!
Brigs

Posted by Trinculo on :

This is a sidenote: A Japanese bank, Softbank, owns majority stakes in the GeoCities Japan Edition. The bank also has shares in Japan editions of Broadcast.Com, CarPoint, CyberCash, E*Trade, E-Loan, InsWeb, Morningstar, and Onsale. And in America, Softbank owns a stake in Yahoo! worth 10 billion dollars.

Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

anyone know about fortunecity?

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

I put a thread in the flameboard--i found the way to remove your site

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Posted by Michael Dracon (Member # 4) on :

Computer!! Cancel Red Alert!!!

Read this please!

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

Interesting, but I think I'm still going to move anyway. GeoCities has just been rubbing me the wrong way lately. The question is if CC is still going to go ahead with his refugee hosting after Altair's revelation...

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Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

Looks like the damage control party is in full swing. Their agreement needs to be worded differently. It's to broad as is.

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Posted by Jubilee (Member # 99) on :

PLEH!

Well, If that's the only reason Yahoo is using that in their terms of service agreement, then it won't matter if I stay at Tripod now, anyway.... especially since I already did all the FTPing and half the link fixing. 'sides wich, Tripod URL's are shorter. *L*

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Unfortunately due to other constraints (i.e. I forgot that I already had the only remaining FTP account reserverd), the hosting by me can NOT happen... Try virtualave.net or something... *frown*

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Charles Capps
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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

See, this is what you get for not paying for Web space (says the hosting company owner).

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

*Smites Frank a lot*

Well, excuse me for being perpetually broke!

After getting all fired up about moving, I've changed my mind and am going to stay at GeoCities (for the time being). I guess I can accept their explanation (but I'll be keeping my eye out for any other stuff they try to pull), and I couldn't find another host that had what I wanted.

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Darlene: I read a lot of science fiction.
Herbert: Bless you, my child.
Kay: The world needs more people like you.

-Deep Space Nine, "Far Beyond the Stars."

Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

I have backed up all my files, just in case.

I still haven't got my yahoo and geocities passwords disentangled. If i can't get things straightened out, I will request they delete my website and move to Tripod, since I already have a site there. I would hate to have to move, since I was just beginning to see an increase in traffic.

--Baloo

P.S.: If anyone from here visits my site, please sign the guestbook?

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Posted by Brigman on :

Altair and others,

It's true the Yahoocities is now backpedaling a bit in their harsh stance. However, before everyone goes rushing back to Geocities with their valuable creative content, I suggest you read this article.

Also of interest is this page.

I would beware if I were you guys...

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Peace!
Brigs

Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

Could any Alliance members who are moving/have moved/are planning to move their sites let me know, either via email or post? Thanks.

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Posted by Baloo (Member # 5) on :

I think this site, Boycott Yahoo, may prove of some use to those of us who haven't finished the bailout yet.

--Baloo

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

I don't have a site anywhere, Yahoo or otherwise. But if I did, I move it as quickly as possible, or take it down completely. It's not worth giving up your rights to your work. I've submitted a little bit of stuff to Tora Zyial's site. As far as I'm concerned, it's hers to do with as she pleases. But if I had my own site there, I'd abandon ship.

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

nonetheless, after reading this clause on the rebuttal yahoo posted:

quote:
Yahoo! has the right to reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, and create derivative works of your content only for the purpose of hosting your GeoCities site and providing and promoting the Yahoo! GeoCities service.

I STILL intend to stay gone from yahoo and geocities both. i don't wnat to find my stories and drawings somewhere with a mustache drawn on them (you get the picture...) just so geocities can promote themselves. can't they be original enough to come up with their OWN promotions? *duH*

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

I think what they mean is they can put in their banner ads and such.

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Posted by Jedi Weyoun (Member # 110) on :

So? *L* maybe i'm just too anal, i don't know. i still don't agree with it

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