On the new magazine/news article policy....

[Jamisjockey]

I know some of you probably think we're a little nutz...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/07/copyright-trolling-for-dollars/

I'd say that pretty much seals it.  Here's the thing: most of us love this site.  Its mostly like the campfire at a fishing camp, minus the vulgar language.  Politics and religion usually without anyone getting punched in the nose.  Current events, entertainment, news perspective and commentary.  General BSing.  Its a great way to spend an hour in the morning with my coffee just reading whats going on. 
Most of us also respect Oleg for his work in the RKBA world.  The private ownership of this site leaves it open to things that a corporate site wouldn't be open to.  But, we also have to recognize when something is a real threat not only to shutting down the site, but to the generosity of the site ownership. 

Anyways, I just thought I'd share with you all some of the thought process in the instituting of this decision. 

[Perd Hapley]

It appears there's been a development in that area:

http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/copyright-internet.htm

[Declaration Day]

No complaints here, Jamis.  Have to CYA these days in the litigious society we live in.

Might it be worthwhile to sweep through old posts and delete copied & pasted content?  It seems like a lot of work, but maybe each of us can police our own?

[mtnbkr]

Fistul, the Author of that article, Rick, is on a Roll, wouldn't you say?

Chris

[Antibubba]

Fistful, that link leads me here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn436DFTUQ


WTH???

[Perd Hapley]

Antibubba,

http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=25472.0   

[Hawkmoon]

Fistful, that link leads me here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypn436DFTUQ


WTH???

Takes me there, also. I'll see your WTH and raise by two more WTHs?

[Battle Monkey of Zardoz]

Well. What do you call several lawyers at the bottom of the Ocean?

[Declaration Day]

Well. What do you call several lawyers at the bottom of the Ocean?

Filler material?

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

Takes me there, also. I'll see your WTH and raise by two more WTHs?

Y'all aren't familiar with the URL tags? [url=www.drudgereport.com(this is the targe page)]www.altavista.com(this is just the word(s) highlighted in blue)[/url]
Will give you:
www.altavista.com

[lee n. field]

Well. What do you call several layers of lawyers at the bottom of the Ocean?

fixed it for ya.

[230RN]

Filler material.  Huh.  You'd raise the ocean level to the point where salt water would be lapping at my doorstep up here in Golden, Colorado, 6000-ish feet.  Beach front property, anyone?  Anyone know offhand how big a "cubit" is?

Do I foresee, in my handy-dandy 80mm crystal ball (which is my most accurate one) a series of pre-emptive unrecoverable server crashes, where the sites have to start up from scratch from Thread 1 Post 1?


Terry, 230RN

[Tallpine]

Trouble is that I seldom follow links anymore 

Too many cluttered websites and viruses out there 

[Jamisjockey]

No complaints here, Jamis.  Have to CYA these days in the litigious society we live in.

Might it be worthwhile to sweep through old posts and delete copied & pasted content?  It seems like a lot of work, but maybe each of us can police our own?

I'm thinking there are probably wwwwaaayyyy too many to do a full sweep, but active posts will likely be edited, even if they originiated before the new policy.

Fistful, you're a dork.

[Hawkmoon]

Y'all aren't familiar with the URL tags? [url=www.drudgereport.com(this is the targe page)]www.altavista.com(this is just the word(s) highlighted in blue)[/url]
Will give you:
www.altavista.com

Yeah, I am. It just never occurred to me that anyone here, in the midst of a serious discussion, would post a phony link purporting to be for a legal source on the topic of discussion while actually leading to ... whatever THAT was.

However, I overlooked the obvious: It's Fistful. My bad.

[lee n. field]

Anyone know offhand how big a "cubit" is?

which cubit?

[Harold Tuttle]

I used to post tons of full text articles to TFL

funny thing, today the only source for many of those olde materials is TFL

[Ryan in Maine]

This used to be satisfactory:

IMPORTANT: To satisfy the U.S. Copyright laws, original posts should be 75 words OR LESS in length (an average 7 lines or less) with a link to the original source online. The first sentence of the article must be posted in full. In Replies, short quotes from copyrighted articles and web sites may be used. Do not post entire copyrighted articles into Replies. State your opinion in your own words. Any copyrighted material posted in Replies must include a link to the original source online.

Seems like only yesterday... 

[Perd Hapley]

Fistful, you're a dork.

I know you are, but what am I?

[Monkeyleg]

I know you are, but what am I?

Pee Wee Herman?

[Perd Hapley]

I know you are, but who am I?

[lee n. field]

I know you are, but who am I?

We have a Vorlon in our midst.

[seeker_two]

We have a Vorlon in our midst.

But....what does he want?.....

[Ben]

Never ask that question.

[GigaBuist]

Well. What do you call several lawyers at the bottom of the Ocean?

BridgeWalker would probably call them job openings. :)

I understand why the new policy is in place entirely.  But, keep in mind it's a very limited number of websites owned by a single parent company that is taking this "sue first" track.  The RIAA (music industry) tried it in recent years and they got something like a 2% return on their "investment" in it.  Although in that case I think they're really just trying to put the fear into people illegally copying music.

This, though, is just fishing for money.  That's all there is to it and I don't believe it'll pan out for them.  They're just going to get blacklisted by blogs and news aggregators.