I don't know if anyone has said it yet, but wouldn't that break the user agreement on the games the faqs are being written about, making money with adds?Quote:
Originally Posted by Videodrone
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I don't know if anyone has said it yet, but wouldn't that break the user agreement on the games the faqs are being written about, making money with adds?Quote:
Originally Posted by Videodrone
Depending on what CNET does, there's amusing potential for a giant lawsuit at some point.
And I wouldn't be surprised to see it ending with CNET hanging onto every written piece of work on there, hundreds of thousands of man hours of unpaid work, copyright, and submitted in the belief it would be free.
I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong :P
Mostly, it will probably just be a continual creep of stupid ass advertising and embedded bullshit (check the Gamecube place and some of the forums - many are now 'brought to you by such and such' - which is a load of horseshit. Gamefaqs is brought to you by the people who wrote the faqs. That's ALL the place is.
What he should have done was posted bandwidth fees and let people pay THOSE. Particularly for the boards, which likely suck as much or more bandwidth than the faqs, given their insane usage.
I'd say he got a fat check from CNET, but if that's the case, why is he still the only one working on it? Why wouldn't he just take the money and run?
I dunno. Doesn't make a lot of sense.