Sites hosted on the Parodius network are permitted to perform financial transactions with the general Internet community within reason.

Permitted use includes (but is not limited to):

• Sale of "swag" merchandise (e.g. clothing, mugs, stickers)
• Sale of self-produced music (e.g. audio CDs)
• Sale of self or community-developed hardware or software
• Sale or trade of used merchandise
• Donations (either personal, or directed to Parodius Networking)

Non-permitted use includes (but is not limited to):

• Re-sale of existing commercial products (e.g. an Amazon or eBay portal)
• Dedicating your site to the sale or advertising of product(s)
• Web banners or text ads (e.g. Google Adwords)
• Unsolicited advertising (e.g. Email, Usenet, IRC, or Web spam)

The general concept is this: we do not want sites on the Parodius Network which are dedicated to commercially advertising any kind of product. We want to try and keep the Parodius Network an environment of positive invention and ingenuity, not focused on money or material wealth. We feel the Web in its present form has become overwhelmed with advertising, and we do not wish to be part of that trend.

In the case we receive complaints from the Internet community over items for sale through your site, our Staff will contact the User(s) with details of the violation. The User(s) will be given 48 hours to respond; we reserve the right to provide the User(s) in question sufficient time to address the issue at hand. If no response is received within the above timeframe, the Site will be suspended indefinitely until contact is made.

If you wish to sell something through your site, and are unsure if your item(s) would violate this Policy, contact Parodius Technical Support with details. We will review the situation and make a decision.

All forms of pornography are considered volatile.

Complaints received via any communication method (Email, phone, IRC, et cetera) regarding pornographic material residing directly on our server will be addressed immediately.

Pornographic content which does not reside on our server (such as a user-based Redirect to content hosted by another provider) is not considered our responsibility. Parodius Networking can only be held liable for data which physically resides on our server(s) hard disks, and/or data which comes across our network/Ethernet.

Parodius Networking does not support nor tolerate child pornography in any shape or form. Incidents pertaining to this subject will be reported IMMEDIATELY to local and federal authorities to induce prosecution.

Repetitive violations of this rule will result in immediate account termination. The threshhold will be assigned individually based upon the severity of the situation; assignment will be done by Parodius Technical Support.

No exceptions to this rule will be made.

Distribution of pirated software/music is considered volatile.

This includes, but is not limited to, commercial software, commercial mask ROM/EPROM/EEPROM dumps (i.e. "roms"), commercial music not previously permitted by the artist/label, and any other software deemed "inappropriate" for public or private use by Parodius Technical Support.

Parodius Networking is not responsible for Sites which contain HTML or text links to said pirated software/music that is not hosted on the Parodius network.

Pirated software/music found to be being distributed via our server(s) will result in immediate account termination without warning.

In the case of termination, depending upon the severity of the situation, we reserve the right to contact local, federal, or commercial authorities and/or organisations (eg. RIAA, IDSA, FBI, et cetera) and inform them of the activities which were performed. None of us personally believe in "narqing," but we don't make federal laws: we just uphold them.

No exceptions to this rule will be made.

All forms of abusive behaviour performed directly from your account, or "relayed" to/from your account, are considered volatile.

Diversity of thought and freedom of expression are upheld strongly by Parodius Networking at a whole. Ethnic, gender, and racial discrimination is severely frowned upon, but is upheld under the First Amendment. However, repetitious scenarios involving such discrimination can or will will in account suspension or termination.

Examples of "relayed" harassment are, but not limited to, the following:

• Harassing Emails which involve the use of our SMTP server. This implies data sent from, to, or data that "involves" our server. An example of the phrase "involves" would be you using your ISPs SMTP server to send a harassing Email with the From address set to <username>@parodius.com or a Parodius hosted domain. Even though our SMTP server was not directly involved in the transmission of the Email, Parodius becomes involved solely because your From or Reply-To field is set to something related to Parodius.
• Harassment performed over IRC via our server (e.g. shell accounts).
• Harassment performed over Usenet groups via our server.

Summarised: do not involve Parodius Networking in anything related to harassment, even if done outside of our network. Involving us in such issues can or will result in account termination.

No exceptions to this rule will be made.

All forms of sub-hosting ("sub-letting," "re-hosting," "subdomaining") are forbidden, unless otherwise agreed upon between the User and Parodius Technical Support.

This includes, but is not limited to:

• Giving out your webspace to others in attempt to host them yourself, under your own wing.
• Giving out FTP space to others in attempt to host them yourself.
• Sharing your account authentication information (passwords, et cetera) with members outside of your own Staff member list.

Parodius Technical Support has no problem with large websites sharing a login amongst Staff members. However, this is quite different from sharing a login with 5 or 10 other people who "need webspace of their own".

We do not approve of this, nor do we appreciate it. We consider it rude, and quite shady. It should be made very clear that we host you and your website. We do not host you so that you can host your friends.

No exceptions to this rule will be made.

Parodius Technical Support reserves the right to change or modify these rules herein at any time, for any circumstance. You, the User, agree with both the current revision of this rulebook as well as all future revisions, regardless of content.

Our Staff also reserves the right to suspend or terminate service for reasons not listed above, on the grounds that the incident(s) in question may result in circumstances beyond our control in the future.

Other reasons for suspension will be addressed on a per-User basis, and dealt with accordingly. User(s) who feel their suspension/termination is unjustified are welcome to appeal the decision; please contact Parodius Technical Support and ask the circumstances be reviewed by the founder of the Parodius Network.