Twitshirt Responds

In response to my letter of ten days ago, I received this email from Twitshirt Services:

Thanks for your inquiry.  We are not trying to be different in our Terms of Service.  The terms on our site were provided to us by our legal team.  We do have plans to revisit the terms so that they not only address the legality of the site, but also are written in layman’s terms so as to not scare off any users.

That’s good news, but I wish there weren’t so many online services that treat their privacy policies and terms of use as afterthoughts. I suppose the reasoning is that hardly anyone reads those documents, but for those of us who do—especially when money is involved—legal copy is part of a company’s public image, and first impressions are hugely important. Twitshirt’s terms are so hostile and repulsive that I immediately lost any interest in licensing my content to them. I’m not sure revising them will be enough to win me back.

Also, I hope they’re not paying too much for that “legal team.” So unenforceable.