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Jul 17, 2006, 12:32am

[View Quote] Welcome to the internet ol chap! - and Yes! - By threatening everyone with
having their homes and finances destroyed if they write anything you don't
like then you, good sir, lose at the internets! Are you a scientologist by
any chance?

Now then, if you want your plan to actually work - how about you stick to
sueing companies rather than threatening to sue people (and hey, whom knows,
you might actually keep the general populus on your side - you know ive
actually forgot about how many times you mentioned lawsuits in your posts in
these newsgroups).

To be fair, its America's own fault for having the law determined by whom
can sue the hell out of eachother the most times in a week, rather than what
is actually written into law, and when you registered with AW you did agree
to go by their rules (including account removal) as Baro said - and yes, in
the past AWI has made some god-aweful descisions about citizenships and
such - mainly due to their lack of research and poor internal
communication - but the fact still is, at most, all they need do is offer a
refund.

I find your taking offense to Ciena joking about your multiple posting
absolutely rediculous - and really, does anyone give a flying fook if you
gave Ciena disscounts? When you give someone a discount you do it as a
business descision at the time, you do not say "here is a discount, you may
not say or joke about anything anything related to me me I do not like"
thats like me saying "Here you can use Evo" (cheap promo:
www.awportals.com/eclipse/ - For all your world domination needs - Now with
death laser script) "but if you are ever mean to me im going to not let you
use it anymore! waaaaa".

A few points of note taken from the EULA:

SOFTWARE. This license does not grant you any right to any enhancement or
update. Furthermore, this license does not grant you continued access to AW
Software.

[read: Chrispeg can sod off on holiday for a decade and you arnt going to
get any upgrades, and thats just tough]

TERMINATION. AWLD may, at its sole discretion, terminate this Agreement,
the license granted herein, and your right to use or access the Software, AW
Software, or the Active Worlds server at any time. On termination, you must
destroy all copies of the Software.

[read: AWI may remove your license for use of its software, at which point

ARBITRATION. Any claim alleging a violation of any duty incident to this
Agreement, or your use of the Software or the AW Software, or arising out of
any transaction occurring in Active Worlds, irrespective of the legal theory
asserted, is subject to binding arbitration. This means that both sides
give up all rights to a jury or court trial. The arbitration will take
place, at your choice, either on-line before the Active Worlds Tribunal, or
before a panel of arbitrators at the American Arbitration Association
offices in Boston, Massachusetts.

[read: VR 'court' - Someone shoot Legion before he reads this]

TITLE. As between the parties, title, ownership rights, and intellectual
property rights in and to the Software and AW Software, and any copies or
portions thereof, shall remain in AWLD and its suppliers or licensors. The
Software and AW Software are protected by the copyright laws of the United
States and international copyright treaties. Title, ownership rights, and
intellectual property rights in and to any software, data, information,
text, pictures, images, avatars, characters, sounds, personalities, or other
content ("Content") accessed through the Software or otherwise with AW
Software is the property of the applicable owner and may be protected by
applicable copyright or other law. This License gives you no rights, title,
or interest to Content (including without limitation Content that you post
or create on the Active Worlds server) except the limited license to use the
AW Software as described above.

[read: Slightly missleading - anything you create in AW (or anywhere) falls
automatically under the protection of law, in other words if you build a
house in AW it is your intellectual property (as is everything you produce)
so you could probably bring a civil case if some-one came along and
propdumped your world and copied it into their own. Would be very low payout
though, probably OOC settlement).

So anyway, go right ahead, try to sue them - it will be an interesting case
regardless - of course AWI would only have to show one decent reason why
they wanted to get rid of you and your case collapses, but yeah see how it
goes but you should ensure you keep this one business to another.

By the way, everything in this email is a personal opinion ;)

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk

"We're Systems and Networks..."
"It's our job to know..."

Jul 17, 2006, 1:50pm

[View Quote] There is one major difference - what you put on a web site isnt binding, the
EULA (usually) is.

And yes, I would agree - the best thing to challenge on would be deceptive
business practices - But thats only when looked at through the human eye, in
legal terms AWI would usually be in the clear.

Jul 17, 2006, 2:31pm

[View Quote] Google 'Scientology vs The Internet'

By the way, good luck with the citizenship prices if Insanity does 'sue them
for millions'

Jul 16, 2006, 2:31am

(Confirmed by several people)

When finding an object error (obj does not exist, encroachment etc) the
browser stalls - the entire area seemingly reloaded in its entirety. With
several objects coming back as errors its enough to crash the browser.

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk

"We're Systems and Networks..."
"It's our job to know..."

Jul 17, 2006, 5:59pm

Objects that are in binary COB / RWX mode are liable to cause crash errors
if they are corrupted.

This is because no validation is likely carried out on things such as
structure length tables.

- MR

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Jul 19, 2006, 2:48pm

Wrong Newsgroup.

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Jul 20, 2006, 6:09pm

[View Quote] Strangely enough... almost everyone knows that :) only other universes have
an interest in limiting that knowledge to stop customer flow to the larger
universe.

Just saying... :)

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

Jul 20, 2006, 6:57pm

[View Quote] *Files nails*

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

Jul 31, 2006, 1:05pm

Grand Theft Auto - the origional playstation game, holds the rights to the
name, anything using it in combination with that king of gameplay would land
you in deep problems.

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

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Jul 29, 2006, 7:08am

lol, boredom.

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

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Jul 27, 2006, 3:22pm

It is however us that they rely upon to make all the bots and support
services, and test the software, and design lots of models etc...

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

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Jul 28, 2006, 4:39am

[View Quote] However, money is actually involved - if they were to take your money which
you payed for x period of y service and then only provided that service for
z time then unless theres a damned good reason you're looking at a form of
fraud.

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

Jul 29, 2006, 4:45am

[View Quote] Amen

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

Jul 31, 2006, 1:03pm

Hey, at one point I got banned for supposedly selling illegal universes and
running some sort of international crime ring.

Fact is that AWI rarely investigates any of these things, its just too easy
to push that change citizen options button - and every time its pushed
without proper reason is a time when AWI harms its position. Shooting itself
in the foot so to speak.

People are right, the AW universe is by no means the biggest thing AW has,
the people in it however control what seems like 80% to 90% of all knowledge
and resources attributed to the AW technology, if you go researching what AW
can do you do not find things like the 20 private universes AW is running
off of auth.activeworlds.com they find websites that we own and control.

AW has no media of its own, that means when people get dissillusioned the
people that have made AW (this universe) are also the people who can break
AW because if enough people turn against the company AWI could kiss what
little corporate image they have goodbye, and subsequently any new clients -
thats what you get for 10 years of neglecting marketing etc.

--
- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

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Jul 30, 2006, 10:03am

Twinkle Twinkle litter star
How I wonder what your base elements are
A mass spectromiter will tell me later
Then i'll move on to something better

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- Mark Randall
http://www.temporal-solutions.co.uk
http://www.awportals.com

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