Priscilla Chung wrote:
It never occurred to me that anyone could just put files on Chandler Hub. Since there is no UI to do so, I just never thought of it.
You may recall that Foxmarks was based on Cosmo out-of-the-box. This is because of Cosmo's support of particular technology standards like WebDAV.
**W**hy **not to allow users from just putting up any files** they want on Chandler Hub (most of these are really legal then a technical issues):
It does appear you outline primarily legal issues to be considered. We had a pretty extensive discussion on an internal list about the terms of service to be used for Chandler Hub. I think most of the issues you raise were addressed in that thread: DMCA, accounts, objectionable content, malicious behavior, resource (disk/bandwidth) limits, and server capacity.
In short, there's no conceptual difference between event/item data and files. All the same copyright issues, space issues, sharing security, and so forth are present regardless of the data types stored on Chandler Hub; events are not exempt from the concerns you outline, so our terms of service will need to cover these issues for all data types.
While we talk about virtually everything we do in public and encourage that, our legal liability isn't good fodder for this list here. Please let me know if the discussions on our internal list weren't clear or there are points you think haven't been discussed sufficiently there. Thanks!
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