Have You Really Read Your ISP's TOS?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday April 8, 2003 @07:03PM from the haven't-read-mine-that's-for-sure dept.

NewtonsLaw writes "XTRA, New Zealand's largest ISP is in the process of losing customers in droves after it announced its new Terms of Service which seek to claim rights over customers intellectual property (see the Slashdot discussion). Now, if that wasn't enough, Aardvark Daily reports that the ISP is also banning its users from saying bad things (anything 'detrimental to our reputation or to our brand') about it. I wonder how many slashdotters have actually read their own ISPs' terms of service in detail? Is this type of IP-grab and clampdown on free speech is unique to Xtra or is it slowly pervading the whole industry, right across the globe?" Read on for Xtra's amendments to the original IP-grab terms, though.

Reader THX1138 points out that "After the very recent story on Xtra (New Zealand's version of AOL) they changed the IP section to include 'Xtra does not claim ownership of any content or material you provide or make available through the Services. However...' at the start and 'in each case for the limited purposes for which you provided or made the Customer Materials available or to enable us and our suppliers to provide the Services.' at the end."

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XS4ALL's TOS by Diabolical · 2003-04-08 21:45 · Score: 1, Redundant

It's really relaxed. The basic things are in there like anti-spam clauses and such.

It even goes so far as to state in a seperate document what kind of information is being kept and why.

It even has a clause stating that it is ALLOWED to try and hack their own servers. If you succeed and gain admin rights you are given 6 months free service under the strict rules that you disclose your methods and tools used to achieve this.

Perhaps this TOS should be made mandatory for any ISP.... ;-)