adigitalmagician:

competitive-potato-farmer:

daddragon:

calleo:

illyriel:

So I was just sent this. Thought y’all might wanna take a looksie.

Yeah, it’s actually there at https://discordapp.com/terms

By uploading, distributing, transmitting or otherwise using Your Content with the Service, you grant to us a perpetual, nonexclusive, transferable, royalty-free, sublicensable, and worldwide license to use, host, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display Your Content in connection with operating and providing the Service.

This isn’t new in the world of TOS. It’s to allow Discord servers to send out the files you upload if they’re copyrighted or you “hold a license.” It’s intended that they can use third party CDNs to host content and send it around the world to users who you’ve sent it to.

The set of terms (use, host, reproduce…) is to let Discord and CDNs do stuff like compress and generate thumbnails of “content.”

And note the last sentence: “…in connection with operating and providing the Service.” What’s “the Service?” “By using or accessing the Discord application (the “App”) or the website located at https://discordapp.com (the “Site”), which are collectively referred to as the “Service,”…“

The Service is using the webapp or the desktop application. So, in agreeing to the TOS, you’re “granting” Discord a license to do provide that Service. You aren’t giving them ownership of the content - only a license. You still own the work, and the license you’re granting is only for use on Discord’s platform. Not, like, Hot Topic.

TL;DR you don’t need to worry

Folks, I’ve been on the Internet a LONG TIME, and I have seen this EXACT SAME FUCKING POST for when Twitter did this, Pinterest did this, DeviantArt did this, Reddit did this, Facebook did this and even FUCKING TUMBLR.

Like, fuck, how many times does this need to be debunked?