No advertisments, no banners, no spam; just like it was in 1991...
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Parodius Rulebook
1. No advertisements (Click here!)
All forms of commercial or personal advertising are considered volatile.
This includes, but is not limited to: banners, Email spam, WWW spam,
UseNET spam, and IRC spam.
Do not use your account for personal financial gain (eg. profit) of any
sort. For example, do not put up webpages in an attempt to sell 50 copies
of Shenmue, Super Famicom backup units, Barbie dolls, old Garbage Pail Kid
sets, your stamp collection, dirty socks, et cetera...
Financial donations may be permitted, but must be cleared by the
Parodius Technical Support
staff before such may take place. All donations received may only be used for
Parodius-oriented issues, such as paying a monthly bill (for bandwidth
usage, et cetera).
All forms of profit will be considered volatile.
Parodius is a non-profit organisation; any profit made from it's Users
or it's Staff can directly affect our tax-exempt status; please be
respectful of this.
Accounts which are found to be performing any of the aforementioned methods
of violation will be given one (1) Email-based warning, and 48-hours to
address the issue at hand.
Any complaints received during the 48-hour modification window regarding
the advertisement(s) in question will be ignored by our Staff; 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 48-hour grace
period, the account will be suspended indefinitely until contact is made;
for web-oriented content, this means the site will be no longer be accessable.
Repetitive violations of this rule will result in account termination.
The repetition threshhold will be assigned individually based upon the
severity of the situation; assignment will be done by the
Parodius Technical Support
staff.
No exceptions to this rule will be made.
2. No pornography (no shirt, no shoes, no service)
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 the
Parodius Technical Support staff.
No exceptions to this rule will be made.
3. No pirated software (winners don't use warez)
All forms of pirated software are considered volatile.
This includes, but is not limited to, commercial software (i.e. "warez"),
commercial mask ROM/EPROM/EEPROM dumps (i.e. "roms"), and any other
software deemed "inappropriate" for public or private use by the
Parodius Technical Support staff.
Parodius Networking is not responsible for data downloaded (obtained)
from external sites; in English, you are free to download pirated
software from sites or individuals which do not involve trespassing or
other illegal means (i.e. "hacking"), but you are NOT allowed to
distribute this software to any other individual or individuals online
from any server(s) hosted by Parodius Networking. Such examples of
distribution may use, but are not limited to, IRC, FTP, Email, UseNET,
or WWW facilities.
Pirated software 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.
4. No abusive behaviour ("He started it!")
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:
5. Sub-hosting ("I wanna be a web provider too!")
All forms of sub-hosting ("sub-letting," "re-hosting," "subdomaining")
are forbidden, unless otherwise agreed upon between the User and the
Parodius Technical Support staff.
This includes, but is not limited to:
6. Our rights (WYSIWYG)
The
Parodius Technical Support staff
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. They are debatable, in the case that you
feel unjustified in your removal.
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