[s-cars] illegal archiving

[Mike Sylvester]

If I were creating something for the purpose of making money and someone
stole it and made money on it instead of me, then yes, I would be upset.
  
If someone copies my ramblings off of audifans and somehow can make a
profit from it, what the heck do I care.  

Not to mention I'm not so sure that just because I type something it is
implicitly copyrighted.  

90% of the things people write here were not 100% their own ideas
anyway.

Anyone want to buy this post from me?  If not, Answerpot you can have
it.

BTW just using that websites name in a post probably benefits them by
causing more hits on a search.

Mike

www.urq20v.com

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [s-cars] illegal archiving
> From: Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com>
> Date: Thu, November 18, 2010 8:49 am
> To: Andrew Dickinson <amdickinson at rogers.com>
> Cc: S car list <s-car-list at audifans.com>, quattro at audifans.com, Hayes
> Myers <hayesmyers at gmail.com>
> 
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> The point is that they are not just archiving it, but actively 
> displaying your postings and mine, without permission, to drive traffic 
> to their site and generate advertising revenue. It's a common business 
> practice on the internet and it is stealing. No questions about it.
> 
> Their business model is to subscribe to the list using an alias 
> (generally considered a violation of list guidelines) and then posting 
> every message on their server. They do not ask permission of either the 
> list owner or of the individual posters who hold copyright to their 
> work. Answerpot is stealing your intellectual property, violating 
> copyright law, and benefitting financially.
> 
> Are you okay with that?
> 
> Lee
> 
> On 11/18/2010 8:18 AM, Andrew Dickinson wrote:
> > It may be outside the law... but the law is such a slow moving beast 
> > that it is almost dormant when it comes to something like the 
> > internet.  Plus, if the server is not on American soil I am not sure 
> > the law can apply to someone from another region of the planet; not to 
> > mention who the heck would pay the legal fees?
> 
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