Google’s new browser, Chrome (I’m not going to link to it, you’ll see why in a minute) is being hailed as a Firefox beater. Its slim, fast and built to work very well with The Goog’s online services. There is a rather large fly in this online ointment however. It is better explained by a lawyer than by me, so I will leave him to the technical legal jargon.
What section 11 of the Chrome EULA says, basically, is that anything you post to the internet through Chrome; Google has a right to use it, edit it, repackage it, distribute it and genrally fuck about with it as much as they like and don’t have to credit you, pay you, or even acknowledge that it came from you.
For instance, if this post to my blog was made through Chrome, Google would have every right to re-use it, claim they wrote it, edit it to better reflect their interests, and they wouldn’t have to do anything for me in return.
Google has dropped tha ball on this one. Spread the word so that they see the error of their wayward ways and change the EULA.
