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Or, you could just honor the terms you clearly understand the content is being offered under, and just not use the service.

Not as fun to write about as coercion is, though.



Or you could instead give them the middle finger and take anything they put out there. TOS are not binding contracts and until you're contractually bound to do otherwise, taking what they're handing out is completely reasonable.


Alright, but when they give the middle finger back at you in other ways, you made your bed.


> TOS are not binding contracts

American courts have had no difficulty in holding that TOS are binding IF done correctly. It wouldn't be prudent to imagine that YouTube's lawyers don't know how to do that.

Santa Clara Law professor Eric Goldman knows approximately everything about this subject. He posts frequent updates on his blog.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/category/licensingcont...




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