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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/0 ... r-dollars/

Basically it saids that there is a new company out there buying copy rights from newspapers for the sole purpose of suing websites and blogger for copy right s infringement.

Several forums that I frequent have taken action already, by posting new rules in this regard....

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Interesting,but not a threat to forums.Freedom of speech,None-commercial interest,Fair Use Doctrine,and various other aspects make this pretty harmless vs forums.

AND its very likely to backfire,as the sites it does target (blogs) often put information before the public before the "mainstream" press.Not to mention the backlash when popular blogs make it public who came after them,and the customers stop supporting the attacker in droves.

It will really only work on specific targets, and even then only if the targets dont fight back.Its bascially just legal extortion aimed at weak companies.

We wont even go into the simple fact that many (if not most) online "news" orgs now have some sort of "share the story" system that encourages readers to send links and excerpts from their stories to friends.Thus encouraging the very action they now are trying to extort...err..sue for.

All we have here is just a glimpse of some of the 99.99% of lawyers who make the others look bad

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Tell that to these guys:
http://www.thearmedcitizen.com/

I guess we will have to see what happens in court but I really hope you are right.

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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov, Salvor Hardin in "Foundation"
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Si vis pacem, para bellum
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It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere.
Voltaire

That is quite distasteful and very disturbing news. Steve Gibson is talking like it's perfectly normal to extort other people for money he has no right for what so ever.

@Draken- thats a blog, and more open to attack, especially if they posted full stories...They dont have the built in defense forums have,in which its a user and not the runner who posts the content.

If the blog posted full stories,it could be in trouble.Even more so if no link was provided to the original.

Copywrite is VERY screwed up at the moment.But its not very hard to get around either in cases like this.All one has to do is post in ones own words the information from a given content.Like doing a book report/synopsis.And thats what such sites will end up doing if this becomes too major a pain in the backside.And all the extra visits such "news" orgs got from the blogs using the actual articles and links, will go away,putting yet another nail in a dying media's coffin.

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Chuckle TM

..and this is how this ends...
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/0 ... ighthaven/

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