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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Friday, December 09, 2005

Cogley: We demand it!

I will be mailing the following letter this afternoon. I've redacted my home mailing address but the rest is as it will be mailed, certified/return receipt requested. If anything will get their attention, this will.
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Andrew Rich
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December 9, 2005


Google, Inc
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

SENT BY CERTIFIED/RETURN RECIEPT MAIL

RE: Blogger.com account “SmartWatermelon”

Greetings:

On Wednesday, November 23, 2005, upon attempting to log in to my account named “SmartWatermelon” (hereafter, the Account) on the Blogger.com system, I received an error message stating that the Account was not found. After ten days of e-mailed requests for assistance from Blogger.com's online support system, I received a response on Friday, December 2, 2005 indicating that certain unspecified blogs linked to my account were in violation of Blogger.com's Terms of Service (hereafter, the TOS). A further response received on Monday, December 5, 2005 stated that the Account would be terminated.

The purpose of this letter is not to argue the point of whether or not any blogs linked to the Account actually violate the TOS; I stipulate to the TOS language such that the Account may be terminated with or without cause at any time. For the record, however, I have reviewed the TOS and do not believe there was any such violation.

Rather, I hereby claim copyright ownership and all related rights for all information published by me through the Blogger.com system (hereafter, the Content) and demand its immediate surrender, in accordance with paragraph 6a of the TOS:

6a. CONTENT OWNERSHIP Unless stated otherwise for specific services, Member will retain copyright ownership and all related rights for information he or she publishes through Blogger or otherwise enters into Blogger-related services.

I additionally demand that surrender of the Content be accomplished by a temporary reinstatement of the Account, of sufficient time to allow me to download and/or export the Content from Blogger.com's systems.

Failure to surrender the Content or make arrangements to do so by Friday, December 16, 2005 will result in further action, not excluding pursuit of legal remedies.

Sincerely,



Andrew Rich
Reference: Blogger.com's Terms of Service: http://www.blogger.com/terms.g
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I will certainly follow up here when I get a response.
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