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Verizon Changes FiOS AUP, -1, Offtopic

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think it was a cool game. Clever plot, movie-like experience that took your breath away and huge explosions. It was sad that there wasn't more of those sneaky sniper missions however.

    Multiplayer is cool with it's leveling and perks, which actually matter quite a lot. Your characters abilities are totally different based on your perks. Co-op play is also great fun.

    What do you think?

    funny picture

    1. Re:My first hand experience on Modern Warfare 2 by vishbar · · Score: 5, Funny

      Burma Shave

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  2. Part (b) : "flaming" by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    (b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information, or engage in other similar activities, including without limitation, "spamming", "flaming" or denial of service attacks;

    You people at Verizon are a bunch of asswipes.

    1. Re:Part (b) : "flaming" by oenone.ablaze · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Actually, I suspect that it's because Verizon just cares about what's going on in _their_ forums, and they included that clause so they could terminate the internet service of complainers / trolls in their forums without saying so explicitly. That's what I would do, if I were a myopic, profit-maximizing natural monopoly.

  3. Forget (e) offtopic, how about (b)? by ClayJar · · Score: 5, Informative

    "[I]t is a violation of the Agreement and this AUP to[...] (b) transmit uninvited communications, data or information"

    They don't even say "unwanted" or some such term. According to the letter of their AUP, discovering an old friend's email address (or Facebook page... whatever people use these days) and sending the friend a message "may lead to termination of your Service". They could replace their entire AUP with an at-will statement and it would be no less unconscionable.

    Of course, cutting off anyone who sends yet another "e-card" might actually be justified, and according to AUP 2.b, they could do it. :)

    Obviously, it's not likely they will enforce the AUP in an egregiously Draconian manner, but I for one would prefer having the outlandish bits *implied* rather than expressly stated. It just looks cleaner. On the other hand, they didn't quite go completely Pythonesque on us:

    Prohibited:
    1. Users named other than "Thomas".
    2. Users named "Thomas".

  4. Re:I'm Not! by quickOnTheUptake · · 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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  5. To all of you offtopiccers! by sopssa · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm on Verizon and cannot join the discussion, you insensitive clods!

  6. Re:haha that's funny by Grax · · Score: 5, Funny

    A bear walks into a bar and says "I would like a beer ... ", waits 30 seconds, then says "... and a wine cooler."

    The bartender says, "OK. But why the big pause?"

    The bear says, "I dunno. I've always had them"

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