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Well we kinda have a copyright notice I guess which the guy who posted the comment falls under, but I don't think anyone would pay any notice at all too

Content belongs to the respective owners and you may not redistribute material without full permission from the owner.

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Well we kinda have a copyright notice I guess which the guy who posted the comment falls under, but I don't think anyone would pay any notice at all too

Content belongs to the respective owners and you may not redistribute material without full permission from the owner.

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Sorry, but that's not even remotely close to be labeled as a disclaimer.

That single line is just saying that all content belongs to their respective owners. Now, I'm no lawyer. No lawyer at all, but in terms of owner, the comments belong to the site, as the site both hosts and display the comments, unless otherwise is stated.

That's where the disclaimer comes in handy, you state that the data that you host and display is not content that you are responsible of, and to view the site / use it you agree to be bound by that fact.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Please do. But the Wikipedia article may help you a bit.

I don't have a disclaimer for what's posted in comments, I do for custom content however. I should add something along the lines that I cannot control what users add, but people should have common sense to realize that I don't add all the comments myself.

In the past I have found people using my work, and I give them an email which works really way and maintain a good relationship with the person. I do feel victimized in all this and I now have a poor opinion of Microsoft. Ironically the person who issued the DMCA I believe works in the customer relation and marketing area at Microsoft .

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Originally posted by absorbation
I do feel victimized in all this and I now have a poor opinion of Microsoft.

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Too bad you still think this is MS' fault, since MS didn't do anything remotely wrong at all. But anyways...

If it were me, I would add a 'Report' button next to each comment.

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Originally posted by Nitro

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Well we kinda have a copyright notice I guess which the guy who posted the comment falls under, but I don't think anyone would pay any notice at all too

Content belongs to the respective owners and you may not redistribute material without full permission from the owner.

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Sorry, but that's not even remotely close to be labeled as a disclaimer.

That single line is just saying that all content belongs to their respective owners. Now, I'm no lawyer. No lawyer at all, but in terms of owner, the comments belong to the site, as the site both hosts and display the comments, unless otherwise is stated.

That's where the disclaimer comes in handy, you state that the data that you host and display is not content that you are responsible of, and to view the site / use it you agree to be bound by that fact.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Please do. But the Wikipedia article may help you a bit.

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It really depends on which country you are in. Each will have their own definitions of property, belonging to another etc. I doubt you can write a legally binding universal disclaimer.

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Originally posted by Chancer

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Originally posted by MeEtc
maybe microsoft should shut google down until they remove all the links to WLM 9

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Maybe they should shut Live.com Search...

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Or ... what about every search engine on the web?

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Originally posted by GiantSpider

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Originally posted by Nitro

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Originally posted by aNILEator
Well we kinda have a copyright notice I guess which the guy who posted the comment falls under, but I don't think anyone would pay any notice at all too

Content belongs to the respective owners and you may not redistribute material without full permission from the owner.

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Sorry, but that's not even remotely close to be labeled as a disclaimer.

That single line is just saying that all content belongs to their respective owners. Now, I'm no lawyer. No lawyer at all, but in terms of owner, the comments belong to the site, as the site both hosts and display the comments, unless otherwise is stated.

That's where the disclaimer comes in handy, you state that the data that you host and display is not content that you are responsible of, and to view the site / use it you agree to be bound by that fact.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Please do. But the Wikipedia article may help you a bit.

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It really depends on which country you are in. Each will have their own definitions of property, belonging to another etc. I doubt you can write a legally binding universal disclaimer.

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What matters is what country the service (aka the hoster, Dreamhost) is located. How the disclaimer is written is up to you, but visitors of that page (service) would have to abide by those "rules" / terms of use, to use the service. So, in one way it would be like a universal disclaimer, since it is the laws of the country the service exists that matters, not the country of the visitor.

Pretty much why the norwegian goverment can't do anything with those that play poker online. (It's illegal in Norway)

You could force all comments that include a link to go into a moderation queue, to help stop similar problems happening again in the future.

I don't believe Microsoft has done anything wrong, and you don't know that they haven't contacted all the other sites with links to WLM9 too.

Everyone is talking about WLM 9, is it Windows Live Messenger 9? I thought there was only an 8th version.