RSS feedIt’s a big site, with a lot of resources, yet their sign up form still crashes with a single text error “the parameter is required gender” if you don’t select a gender. Well excuse me, I just thought the field without the mandatory field indicatory was probably not a mandatory field.
Whatever happened to testing? The sign up form is probably the most used non-media display page on the site, it is the key page required to be functioning correctly in order to get users signed up. Signing up of course being an important part of their business model, so they can sell them to their advertisers. You would think that they’d want to actually test this page.
Arrgh. Morons, with no clue, dominating a market which they don’t understand, in a technical domain they obviously have no particular expertise in.
But of course, it’s also personal with me an them, isn’t it.
So I went to upload a video, the Bonny & Clyde trailer, and I bumped into their extremely liberal terms of use. Check this out:
The IFILM Network, including all content, media and materials, all IFILM software, code, design, text, images, photographs, illustrations, audio and video material, media files, artwork, graphic material, articles, databases, proprietary information, writings, spoken statements, music, video recordings, audio-visual works and recordings, slides, portraits, animated and/or motion pictures, caricatures, likenesses, vocal or other sounds, sound recordings, voices, voice reproductions, computer graphics and visual effects, as well as any accompanying documentation, packaging or other materials, tangible or intangible, and all copyrightable or otherwise legally protectible elements of the IFILM Network, including, without limitation, the selection, sequence and ‘look and feel’ and arrangement of items, and all derivative works, translations, adaptations or variations of same, regardless of the medium, broadcast medium, format or form, now known or hereinafter developed or discovered, and regardless of where produced, on location, in a studio or elsewhere, in black-and-white or in colors, alone or in conjunction with other work, characters, real or imaginary, in any part of the world, are the property of IFILM and/or its Affiliates, and their Advertisers, licensors, suppliers, service providers, promotional partners and/or sponsors (all of the foregoing, individually and/or collectively, is referred to herein as “Content”).
So basically, they own the world it would seem. Anyway, so I uploaded the video, which is already covered by a creative commons attribution non-commercial remix license, which leaves them in a bit of a dilemna doesn’t it, because their rights can’t override mine. So it’s up to them to remove my stuff when they realise they don’t own it. Meanwhile, I’m making use of their network for my own needs, and they can just go and get …