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Why do people write copyright warnings on their profiles?
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By *Play OP Couple
over a year ago
a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire |
I've noticed a lot of profile have stuff like...
"To: Sydney University and all other institutions using this site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. (I suggest the rest of you post this notice.)"
#Why the heck would Sydney University in particular want our pictures?
#Does this accually protect you from anything?
#Should everyone who wants to be discreet, like us, post such warnings?
I just keep seeing these warning and I'm contemplating joining them but don't want to just be a sheep doing it blindly just because everyone else does. I want to understand why people do this and make my own mind to.
Cheers in advance |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've noticed a lot of profile have stuff like...
"To: Sydney University and all other institutions using this site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. (I suggest the rest of you post this notice.)"
#Why the heck would Sydney University in particular want our pictures?
#Does this accually protect you from anything?
#Should everyone who wants to be discreet, like us, post such warnings?
I just keep seeing these warning and I'm contemplating joining them but don't want to just be a sheep doing it blindly just because everyone else does. I want to understand why people do this and make my own mind to.
Cheers in advance"
It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile. |
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By *Play OP Couple
over a year ago
a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire |
I thought it might be a prank, like the type that are constantly floating around Facebook.
I just wanting to make double sure that I'm not missing something here.
Thank you all for clearing that up |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile. "
love it but that means I'll only speak to a very small handful of people  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile.
love it but that means I'll only speak to a very small handful of people "
Lol, yeah, know what you mean. |
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By *Play OP Couple
over a year ago
a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire |
I feel a little silly asking on the forum for an answer that is in the FAQ...
Here is the official answer for anyone else who perhaps hasn't seen it...
"We've noticed a legal disclaimer paragraph that some people have on their profiles. Should we have one too? What are they about? Do they do any good?
The "legal disclaimer" is pointless nonsense and all does is take up extra space on our servers. Please remove it if you have it on your profile. If you're worried about privacy please set your account to be hidden from non-registered users on your privacy page (this also hides it from search engines but may take a week or two to drop out of search) and remove the notice (and encourage others to do likewise).
Common sense advice would be NOT to put any information on your profile (here, or on any such site) that could identify you or that you don't want to become public! So for your own benefit, don't post phone numbers, real names or email / instant message addresses on your profile that people might see or "Google".
Some people may put non-identifying pics on their public profile but keep face pics private or for friends, for example." |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It's utter nonsense and I use it as a filter to be honest. I delete messages from anyone who happens to have mindlessly posted that on their profile. "
makes me laugh when it's all there is on the profile, like you say a useful filter |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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They mean absolutely nothing in reality, have no legal basis and just a general waste of time, and why is it just the university of Sydney that seems to be targeted?? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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There is a thing behind this. In 2006 Sydney Uni did a research piece on dating websites where they hoovered up tons of data en-mass for a research paper. These messages have been appearing on dating websites ever since. The reality was a ton of graphs about dating habits, nothing personally identifiable on it, but there was a bit of a backlash anyway.
Occasionally you see Adultfriendfinder mentioned as well, since they've got a long history of, er, 'padding out' their membership.
They are, of course, from a legal standpoint, absolute rubbish - Bonus points if they're threatening action in the European court system to organisations located in Australia and the US. |
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Some profiles have the warning on and have the most appalling badly written text and the crappiest photos. Why the hell would I want to copy that shite?
I'm sure there is a direct and causal link. That would be a better university research project. |
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By *ndigo40Woman
over a year ago
secret town |
"I've noticed a lot of profile have stuff like...
"To: Sydney University and all other institutions using this site or its associated sites for projects - You do not have permission from me to use any of my profile or pictures in any form or forum both current and future. If you have or do, it will be considered a violation of my privacy and will be subject to legal action. (I suggest the rest of you post this notice.)"
#Why the heck would Sydney University in particular want our pictures?
#Does this accually protect you from anything?
#Should everyone who wants to be discreet, like us, post such warnings?
I just keep seeing these warning and I'm contemplating joining them but don't want to just be a sheep doing it blindly just because everyone else does. I want to understand why people do this and make my own mind to.
Cheers in advance"
As if they would take you to court 
If they that worried don't put pics up of faces covered in spunk
Just saying! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It is against plagarism "
oh good.
I was contemplating wether or not to upload some of my original pieces of work and some research I've carried out throughout the years. Good think the disclaimer protects it against people stealing it and claiming authorship.
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By *Play OP Couple
over a year ago
a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire |
"Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!"
How much bandwidth can a few lines of basic text really waste.
Compared to all the pictures, banner, colours ect. I would have thought the extra bandwidth those few lines of text use would be practically nothing, neglable at best.
Not sure how much extra use the members could gain from everyone removing this disclaimer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's not needed and simply a poor joke that has infected gullible people's profiles. I just don't think it will crash any servers lol |
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By *reykiwi500Man
over a year ago
West Kent (near Tonbridge) |
"Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!
How much bandwidth can a few lines of basic text really waste.
Compared to all the pictures, banner, colours ect. I would have thought the extra bandwidth those few lines of text use would be practically nothing, neglable at best.
Not sure how much extra use the members could gain from everyone removing this disclaimer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's not needed and simply a poor joke that has infected gullible people's profiles. I just don't think it will crash any servers lol"
I would imagine the concern is more about storage space taken up on servers than bandwidth, but it might be both depending on how the application works. Given the sheer number of profiles that have this kind of disclaimer (totally unnecessarily), if they were all removed, I'd imagine that would free up quite a bit of space on the fab severs that could be used for better things. Disk space is pretty cheap these days compared many years ago, but it still costs. |
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By *Play OP Couple
over a year ago
a village near Bridlington, East Yorkshire |
"Total waste of the isp bandwidth which could be used by the members!!
How much bandwidth can a few lines of basic text really waste.
Compared to all the pictures, banner, colours ect. I would have thought the extra bandwidth those few lines of text use would be practically nothing, neglable at best.
Not sure how much extra use the members could gain from everyone removing this disclaimer.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure it's not needed and simply a poor joke that has infected gullible people's profiles. I just don't think it will crash any servers lol
I would imagine the concern is more about storage space taken up on servers than bandwidth, but it might be both depending on how the application works. Given the sheer number of profiles that have this kind of disclaimer (totally unnecessarily), if they were all removed, I'd imagine that would free up quite a bit of space on the fab severs that could be used for better things. Disk space is pretty cheap these days compared many years ago, but it still costs."
This website says 1 letter uses 1 byte...
https://web.stanford.edu/class/cs101/bits-gigabytes.html
... Therefore 1GB would be around 1 billion letters. A DVD is around 4.7GB so you could store 4.7 billion letters on a single DVD.
I really don't think any noticeable amount of space could be saved even if 10 million people removed the pointless warning.
I guess if it makes people, however misguided, feel safer and if others use it as a filter it's not accually such a bad use of a few bytes per misguided member.
Than you all for your thoughts on this and confirming my suspensions that this is a practical joke. I really should have read the FAQs
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