Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic

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Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 1, 2009 @06:26AM from the get-ready-for-municipal-broadband dept.

RasputinAXP writes "Verizon has changed their FiOS AUP effective yesterday, and added an interesting new clause to their specific examples that we're all familiar with: 'it is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to ... post off-topic information on message boards, chat rooms or social networking sites.' At this point, every FiOS-based Slashdot user is breaking the new AUP."

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Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 by Anonymous+Monkey · 2009-12-01 06:35 · Score: 3, Interesting

Yum Potato Pancakes!

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Re:I'm Not! by quickOnTheUptake · 2009-12-01 07:00 · Score: 5, Interesting

I suspect this is just the next level of ISPs' disallowing spamming. They probably aren't planning to actively enforce it, but if it were to come to their attention that one of their accounts is being used to post 100's of more or less subtle marketing messages a day to forums, they reserve the right to cut the account off.
That said I actually have no idea, just a guess.

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Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 by Carbaholic · 2009-12-01 07:14 · Score: 3, Interesting

And now for something completely different, a man with three buttocks
Oopsie by rindeee · 2009-12-01 07:19 · Score: 3, Interesting

What Verizon (Comcast, and others) are going to learn the hard way is the liability that comes along with this. IANAL, but, from experience I understand that if you specifically say something is prohibited, but then do not enforce prohibition of it and someone causes harm to another where it would have been precluded had you enforced the prohibition of said activity, guess who's liable. :)