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By obtaining a Crosswinds account, you are electronically agreeing to follow these Terms of Service.
It' s getting to fucking hard to tell when your agreeing to something, or now. See bottom of page.
AUDIO AND VIDEO FILES: Non-Sample length (max 45 seconds) sound and video files that you own the rights to may be uploaded only after you are approved. Midi files are not considered "live" media, and are unrestricted: you do not need approval for them.
Analysis: what the fuck? Even if I own the rights to it, and I made the file, I can't upload it. What a hassle. They apparently don't want musician on thier service. Musicians hate to have to beg to have thier stuff displayed. I do anyway, and I'm the only one that matters.

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We're sorry but the Media Form is temporarily offline. While we're working on it, if you need approval for media uploading, please send an email to [email protected].

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You may not upload any material that violates or infringes on the copyright, intellectual property rights or trademark rights of any individual or organization. This includes, but is not limited to, all sound and video files/formats, images, and text media. This also applies to linking directly to illegal files or other sites that offer any illegal material.
Analysis: Not unusual.

Note: You may upload these materials if you first obtain written permission from the copyright or trademark owner.
Analysis: Fair enough.

 

Piracy, hacking, cracking, phreaking, warez, pyrotechnics, exploitive software or text that educates or encourages this activity are not allowed.
Analysis: Book Burning. The problem here is you're not allowed to educate. If you were to say: cracking is useually done by downloading the contents of the program CD and circumventing the code or something like that, you might just be kicked off. Don't like. They must not get many firecracker businesses useing thier pages.

 

Deliberately changing the extension of a file to hide its contents will not only not work, it will be considered an illegal file and will result in the immediate termination of your account. There is no valid reason to change the extension of a legal file.
How can they tell? I'm sure one could feasably write a novel or something, save it, and have them delete it because it's about the dize of an .mp3.

 

You may not upload ROMs and Emulators. We agree with the game manufacturers and will continue to support their fight against them. This is non-negotiable.
As apposed to the Piracy hacking cracking pheaking warez pyrotechnics exploitive software one, which is negotiable

 

You may not publish any material that is grossly offensive to the general on-line community, including but not limited to, exploitation of children, blatant expressions of bigotry, hatred, harassment, defamation, invasion of privacy or excessive profanity (cursing). This includes material that defames, abuses, harasses or threatens any person or group. We reserve the right to be the final judge as to what is or is not acceptable.
Big Problem:you may not publish any material that is grossly offensive to the general on-line community+We reserve the right to be the final judge as to what is or is not acceptable=censorship. What if its offensive but true? The truth is ugly,

 

Adult content is not allowed. Adult content is considered to be anything that contains nudity, pornography, or sexual material of a lewd, lecherous or obscene nature and intent, or that violates local, state or national laws.
Puritans!

 

Spam is not allowed and we will bill you $500 US per email you attempt to send. You may not reference your Crosswinds web site in any unsolicited email that you send. Note: This does not include personal mailing lists where the people on the list have chosen to receive mail from the list.
gee, that's nice, but they only wish people would use them for spam. Only hotmail and yahoo are used for spam.

 

Your account may not be used as a storage or backup facility. All files in your directory must be linked from publicly accessible HTML pages, which should be uploaded before any other files. We prevent the theft of bandwidth and use as storage by limiting the linking ability from other servers to HTML files only.
This is stupendous BULLSHIT. Way to be useless. Theft of bandwidth my hairy ass, that's called useing the webspace your giving me. The real reason is not theft of bandwith, it's because you can't see thier advertisements if you don't go to an html page they can hijack and fill with ads.

 

Mirroring commercial sites is not allowed.
What if you own the commercial site?

 

You may not link to or offer to distribute any material that is not acceptable or allowed by our Terms of Service.
You really do think that everyone is dumber that you. Damn you to hell.

 

You are solely and fully responsible for the contents of your account. Any and all repercussions will be born solely by you as the account holder.
Ah huh.

 

Crosswinds makes no guarantee of availability of service and reserves the right to change, withdraw, suspend, or discontinue any functionality or feature of the Crosswinds service. In no event will Crosswinds be liable for any damages, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of the use of or inability to use Crosswinds' services or any content thereon. This disclaimer applies, without limitation, to any damages or injury, whether for breach of contract, tort, or otherwise, caused by any failure of performance; error; omission; interruption; deletion; defect; delay in operation or transmission; computer virus; file corruption; communication line failure; network or system outage; or theft, destruction, unauthorized access to, alteration of, or use of any record.
Seriously folks, take my files... please!

 

We reserve the right to terminate any account without warning or notice and to examine the contents of any account at any time.
They see you ing the daytime, they see you at night,
You better the hell behave, or kiss your site goodbye.
sung to the tune of "santa claus is coming to town"

 

Premium/Paid accounts that are terminated for violations against the Terms of Service: future billing will be cancelled, but no refund will be issued. All members are expected to read and comply with the Terms of Service before uploading any files to their accounts.
So, if you pay for a site, your still expected to put up with all this crap? Who'd pay for that?

 

Crosswinds reserves the right to send newsletters and information on occasional offers and promotions from it's affiliates and partners via email at any time.
even if you refuse.

 

Crosswinds reserves the right to change or amend these Terms of Service at any time and without prior notice. It is your responsibility to be familiar with these Terms of Service in the event that they change at any future time. By uploading any content to the Crosswinds servers, you signify your agreement to these Terms of Service. If you do not agree to these Terms of Service, please do not obtain a Crosswinds account.

By reading this, you ('you' being the term to represent the viewer of this webpage by electronic means) agree that freestanding nude media now owns rights to all of your intellectual property, physical property, you name and likeness, under all circumstanses, for any use. This contract extends untill ninety (90) days after your death. This is a legal contract that you have "digitally signed" by reading this far. Thank you slave.