London Olympic website T+C linking policy (sect 5) "no nasty links"(london2012.com)
london2012.com
London Olympic website T+C linking policy (sect 5) "no nasty links"
http://www.london2012.com/terms-of-use/
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If they were a startup I would of cause suspect a conspiracy behind this, most likely some form of troll baiting of others into linking to their website. But I can't imagine the London Olympics being that sneaky just to get some Boingboing inbound links. Its probably once again one of these Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. cases.
Previous submission, much discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4241404
Looking at its history it clearly got flagged off the front page and buried, despite being reasonably popular at the time.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4241404
Looking at its history it clearly got flagged off the front page and buried, despite being reasonably popular at the time.
Looks like they were trying to protect their trademark and logo (the rest of section 5a) and they went a little over the top. Probably somebody with an impoverished imagination. ("If anyone creates an image link to our site, the image will probably be our logo. We must stop that! What? Exceptions? But why would anyone create an image link to london2012.com without putting our logo in the image?")
The real question is: Does a ToS like this actually have any legal force, either in the UK or anywhere else in the world?
The real question is: Does a ToS like this actually have any legal force, either in the UK or anywhere else in the world?
I'm not sure but suspect not. The Olympic Committee are very, very hot on usage of the olympic logo and the word "Olympics"
I decided to have a look to see if I could find any details on https://www.london2012.com/brandprotection and found this instead:
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.london2012.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.
...
www.london2012.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names: a248.e.akamai.net , .akamaihd.net , .akamaihd-staging.net
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
Oops.
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to www.london2012.com, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.
Normally, when you try to connect securely, sites will present trusted identification to prove that you are going to the right place. However, this site's identity can't be verified.
...
www.london2012.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names: a248.e.akamai.net , .akamaihd.net , .akamaihd-staging.net
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
Oops.
I see the same error whenever I inadvertently access the SSL version of a non-SSL site that uses Akamai CDN. Either somebody put up the wrong link, or you're using a Firefox add-on that tries too aggressively to use SSL.
By the way, http://www.london2012.com/about-us/our-brand/using-the-brand...
By the way, http://www.london2012.com/about-us/our-brand/using-the-brand...