Legal Question in Constitutional Law in Ohio

there is a facebook game that I pay to play... they have set restrictions on ISP usage..ie 2 persons in the household or actually even an internet cafe or school may not play the game from a shared ISP or risk being banned from the game without refund of any paid monies. second rule.. you may not share your facebook login with any other person. if a shared password is used to login into the game you risk being permanently banned with no refund of paid monies. Seriously? if my son..who lives with me would like to play the game He cannot at risk of me being banned from it? When i went through chemo last year and was sick for months a friend was logging into my game for me in order to keep it active..can they legally ban me and my friend for that? I have my childrens logins to keep track of their facebook for safty purposes as is recommended by many state authorities. It is my facebook..if I want to authorize someone to access it i should have the right to do so. right?


Asked on 4/18/12, 7:45 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Edward Hoffman Law Offices of Edward A. Hoffman

It's your Facebook account, but it's their game. Web sites, games, etc. generally require their members to approve a user agreement before joining. Except in very unusual circumstances, the terms of those agreements are binding.

The rules you describe were almost certainly contained in your user agreement. You may want to double-check to make sure of this. But if you accepted the rules when you joined (or if you accepted later modifications), you have little ground for complaint.

Incidentally, you also OK'd a user agreement with Facebook. That agreement limits what you can do with your Facebook account. So your rights to let other people use that account are limited by the agreement. You are not free to do whatever you want with it.

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Answered on 4/18/12, 12:00 pm


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