User agreement: the rules have changed, and now there will be SO!

    I decided to ask a question to a respected audience. Now it’s quite common practice to change user agreements on sites. For example, take yatv.ru/ru/eula
    - not only do many users not read them initially,
    - not only will the agreement initially restrict copyright to content, p 2.6
    - not only will service creators announce the possibility of blocking your content at any time, clause 2.10
    - refuse any guarantees of stable operation of the service and take away all responsibility, clause 5 as a whole
    - not only do you refuse to protect yourself, clause 5.8
    - by accepting the agreement, you undertake to protect the company! clause 5.9
    - collects a bunch of personal data about you, clause 6
    - which it can use for advertising, spam, analysis, etc. 6.7
    - as well as transmit the collected information "to the Russian Federation or other countries" 6.13
    But these rules are subject to change without notice! p.8.8

    To take away the copyright to the content posted by users, changing the agreement and applying its provisions “retroactively” (which is marked “effective immediately” or “continued use of the service means your consent”) is easier than taking candy in the baby. AND EVERYTHING IS LEGAL BY LAW.

    I generally have a BIG QUESTION about the legality of
    applying back-end agreements to existing accounts
    - obliging users to independently monitor changes in the agreement (and gradually phasing out the practice of withdrawing the checkbox obliging the user to agree to the new version of the changes in favor of the wording “continued use means your automatic consent to the new rules”)
    - lack of links to old versions of the agreement.

    It would be nice to conduct a detailed legal analysis of user agreements of many popular services (LiveJournal, YouTube, VKontakte, Habr :)). This would really help many people understand what their creators really want. Unfortunately, this would not help to understand what the creators of services want in the FUTURE.

    How legitimate is this? What are the alternatives? Is it worth the risk of losing authorship of articles, drawings, videos of popularity gained or information in the comments?

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