IAmSinistar: Loads of titles on the
ShinyLoot weekend sale that starts today.
Fist of all, (belated) thanks for your posts with ShinyLoot sales. I finally checked the shop out now, and it seems that they indeed have good prices and sales, great search options, and favor a DRM-free approach. The catalog is rather small, but I guess this will change.
The also have a reward program for reviews, which immediately caught my interest, until I checked their terms of use and found that (boldface by me):
"User agrees that and all communications, postings, reviews, blogs, chats, suggestions, ideas, feedback or other comments posted by User on the Website, or submitted to ShinyLoot through use of the Website, become ShinyLoot's exclusive property, and all worldwide intellectual property rights and any title therein are thereby assigned by User to ShinyLoot. " Yikes. This is very disappointing. Other sites (GOG for example) do not need such a content cannibalism clause. I would like to post some reviews, but I'm _not_ giving up all my rights to things I spent time and effort for, thank you. :(
This is especially disappointing because elsewhere in their ToS, they make a point that I (as the author) will be the culprit if anything I contribute happens to creates problems. So they are inviting me to contribute to their site, but only if they can grab all rights to the material (meaning I couldn't even post it myself on my own blog without violating ShinyLoot's rights), while at the same time I remain the sole responsible entity if anything goes wrong. Nice. :(
Also, is there a way to browse the entire catalog? I looked for it, but I can only ever browse a single category.