In protest of Section 8 of the Yahoo/Geocities Terms of Service - the offensive portion of which reads as follows:
8. CONTENT SUBMITTED TO YAHOO
By submitting Content to any Yahoo property, you automatically grant, or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted, Yahoo the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed.
#Ship-of-Acquisition has been removed from Geocities. To access it, please change your bookmark to http://www.gor.net/soa.
kajira korners - the sister website of Ship-of-Acquisition has also been removed and can be found at http://www.gor.net/soa/.
Support the Haunting of Yahoo/Geocities!
If you are also disturbed by the terms of service listed above - and are a resident of Geocities - DON'T JUST MOVE YOUR SITE. Moving it will only open space for a new - innocent person to fall into this situation. Make a statement by posting your own Haunting page to protest this potential abuse of creativity.
Use this page as a template to state your disapproval - or create your own black/white and grey page. E-mails can be ignored, but if enough of us remove the creativity which makes the internet great - even Yahoo will have to sit up and take notice.
While I lay no claims to legal skills, I have done a lot of contract interpretation in my day. Putting this experience to work I have translated Section 8 into layman's terms to help everyone understand it a bit better.
More details about the Haunting of Geocities will be coming soon