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- From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Henry' Komarinski)
- Subject: Re: Player rights on MUDs
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 16:14:45 GMT
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- youngdah@nic (Ben Youngdahl) writes:
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- >Situation: lets say you are running a mud on a commercial site.
- >You charge nothing for the service. Does a player connecting to
- >the mud have any rights in-so-far-as the mud goes? If they post
- >a message on a bulletin board on the mud, can you remove it?
- >Can you delete their player if they "break a rule" of the mud?
- >Can you ban their site?
-
- Yes.
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- >Or do they have actual legal rights that they could take your company
- >to court over?
-
- One simple solution would be to post a disclaimer or soemthing in the
- MOTD. Maybe something to the effect that they have no real rights on
- the mud (other than privacy) and that sites can be banned at the
- discretion of the Wizzes. My experience with muds kinda tells me
- this is an 'unwritten law' in the mud world, but you may want to
- write it out so that everyone knows and you don't get sued or something.
-
- -Enry
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- - Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
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- Smile. It makes people wonder what you're up to.
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