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Morganni --
I believe it would come down to a Yuku call on that, but, in my non-legal opinion, the applicable portions are here:
Quote:m. Attempt to reverse engineer, disassemble, decrypt or decompile the
Service or any systems of Yuku or its affiliated
organizations;
n. Do anything that may interfere with the operation of the Service,
including, but not limited to, hacking, spamming
and flood attacking;
whereas the portion I suspect I would be violating using any method I can think of to backup the site is:
Quote:q. Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other
device to retrieve or index any portion of the
Service or collect information about users for any unauthorized
purpose;
Though I'll note that the above would appear to make Google violate the TOS, since we know Google crawls the forums indexing content fairly regularly.
Also, section 8, part c:
Quote:You expressly understand and acknowledge that Yuku may, in its sole
discretion, change your privileges as
a user, Member, and/or Domain Administrator of the CSC Subscription
Programs. Yuku reserves the right at any time
and from time to time to modify or discontinue, temporarily or
permanently, the CSC Subscription Programs
(or any part of it) with or without notice. You acknowledge that Yuku
shall not be liable to you or to any third
party for any modification, suspension or discontinuance of the CSC
Subscription Programs.
would seem to indicate that even though Bob is paying for certain things (like no ads), Yuku basically says it can change that at any time with no warning and no compensation.
Finally, the Content section (section 3) has some very good points (Yuku does not claim perpetual, royalty-free license to your work like Yahoo! Groups once did, for example), but nowhere does it state that Yuku cannot modify your content.  So there's not much recourse in that direction, either.
All that said... while I still don't think we'll get Yuku to change -- it's going to be hard to convince them to stop making money, after all -- I don't think they'd take any action on what you've already posted.  You've posted links to outside resources, that's it -- unless I've missed something.  And there's nothing illegal about them; they just tell people how to block software from running on their computer.
So, kinda gray, but I think you're in the clear, for what it's worth.

--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
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