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http://75.101.210.210/tos

"As a SPIN Earth registered individual/user you may submit content. User submitted content includes videos, photos, text, and comments and are collectively referred to as "User Submissions." For clarity, you retain all of your ownership rights in your User Submissions. However, submitting your material, for good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which you hereby acknowledge, you hereby grant to SPIN Earth (SPIN Media, LLC) and its affiliates a non-exclusive, perpetual, worldwide license to edit, telecast, rerun, reproduce, use, create derivative works from, syndicate, license, print, sublicense, distribute and otherwise exhibit the materials you submit, or any portion thereof in any manner and in any medium or forum, whether now known or hereafter devised, without payment to you or any third party."

Seriously, I can sign up to your site, write reviews/posts or blog photos, and you'd be able to print them in your magazine and elsewhere FOR FREE, FOREVER?

Just no.

Websites need to stop pulling this crap, and keep their "use" of your posted content to that necessary to publish the site... which used to be the norm for user agreements... instead of exploiting their users for the possibility of adding to a media archive they can use as free crowd sourced content down the road on their other projects/sites.