https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-to-rein-in-the-internet-lords-the-dangers-of-feudal-security/2013/06/17 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:13:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/how-to-rein-in-the-internet-lords-the-dangers-of-feudal-security/2013/06/17/comment-page-1#comment-538258 Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:13:36 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=31618#comment-538258 When you put your data on someone else’s machine – like I’m doing right now writing this sentence – to a very great degree you are at their mercy as to what they do with that data. There’s an internet ethic that it is unacceptable to make private email public – but that’s a gentlemen’s agreement unenforceable at law, as far as I know, but perhaps if you put a copyright notice ( Copyright 20XX YourName All Rights Reserved etc) on your private email that might help to keep it private. Articles, images, sound, video, and suchlike are subject to the copyright laws – so with inclusion of a copyright notice as above, that will clarify ownership. All user agreements contain the following language as relates to user-owned online content: “XXXX does not claim ownership of any Content that you post on or through the Service. Instead, you hereby grant to XXXX a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to use the Content that you post on or through the Service.” If you want to stop the Service from using your content, you simply send them a letter, in regular mail, certified, return receipt requested (in the US) stating that you revoke this license and give sufficient information as to identify the data for which you revoke the applicable license. If the Service continues to use your data, you sue them. That’s the simple process by which the “Internet Lords” may be restrained.

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