Mahalo Changes TOS to Cover Its Ass

Can Jason Calacanis get any more evil?   Jason has gone ahead and changed Mahalo's Terms of Service to state that Mahalo now owns all the content that its subscribers write.  This is as a result of Mahalo's recent "important and exciting" announcement that they are taking revenue sharing away from Mahalo pages, and will only be hiring a limited number of writers to continue writing Mahalo pages for a flat fee.  Everyone else will be losing their pages and will receive nothing further for their work on those pages.  But of course, Mahalo/Jason will continue to benefit financially from those pages. 

Mahalo's original Terms of Service under Proprietary Rights read:

"You own your Content.  We claim no intellectual property rights over the Content you provide to the Services through your Mahalo Account.  Your profile and materials uploaded remain yours."

Mahalo's new Terms of Service state:

"All content you write and submit to Mahalo in exchange for payment in Mahalo Dollars becomes the intellectual property of Mahalo.  This includes questions and answers on the Mahalo Answers system, submissions to Mahalo Tasks and changes made to the content of Mahalo Topic Pages.  Edits and text added to your personal Mahalo user profile remains yours."

Like I've said in previous posts - Mahalo is a shady company that shouldn't be trusted.  They do not have their writers' best interest at heart.  It's just sad that we all had to learn this the hard way.  And even sadder that people will continue to believe in Mahalo/Jason Calacanis just to get screwed over in the end.