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Fine Print Friday: eBay User Agreement

October 22, 2010

Since its inception, eBay has become an enormous entity, with $8.7 billion of revenue in 2009. Given the multitude of buyers and sellers using eBay all the time, it seems like it would be nice for those people to have a sense of some of the policies to which they have agreed by being users.

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Fine Print Friday: Virgin Mobile’s MiFi

September 3, 2010
MiFi 2200

Virgin Mobile’s new MiFi costs $150, and for $40 per month you receive unlimited internet service on Sprint’s 3G network, with no contract or minimum usage period. Considering this new development, I thought that going through the fine print on Virgin Mobile’s terms of service with regard to their services generally and BroadBand2Go specifically would be important, to make sure that this too-good-to-be-true product isn’t just that.

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Fine Print Friday: Comcast Cable

August 20, 2010

As by far the largest provider of digital media services in the country (including cable television, internet, and digital phone), Comcast has many Fine Print Friday readers as customers. Since we always just sign off on the agreement so we can watch our favorite shows and surf our favorite web sites, the question is: What did we agree to? This week’s Fine Print Friday will illuminate some of the more interesting provisions of your agreement with Comcast.

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Fine Print Friday: Netflix Watch Instantly

August 13, 2010

Netflix made headlines this week when it announced that it made a deal with Epix (a pay-TV service that is a joint venture between MGM, Lionsgate and Viacom Inc.’s Paramount) to stream movies from those studios, greatly increasing the size of their Watch Instantly library. This is great news for Netflix subscribers (including me), and likely means that Netflix will have a lot of new subscribers in the coming months. This development makes Netflix’s Watch Instantly policies ripe for Fine Print Friday.

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Fine Print Friday: Twitter Terms of Service and Privacy Policy

July 30, 2010

This week’s Fine Print Friday addresses what permissions you give every time you tweet, and ends with a couple considerations for those of you who haven’t thought through the consequences of stream-of-consciousness tweeting.

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