Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 31, 2004 12:40 AM
After my company pulled out of my home town and closed our office, I finally had a chance to pursue a website business fulltime to see if I could make a modest income. I've always wanted to do this, even back in '95, but I had full time job with family. Whew, its been hard, and I'm negative in cash flow! PLUG: (www.linuxelectrons.com).
Its sad that people do not respect the work of others. They were probably raised by their parents in a bad environment without being taught "morals". Another alternative is the infringer thinks he/she will never get caught because the internet is a place of anonymity. It could be an honest mistake. I have caught myself doing the same due to excitement over the topic. When your self-editing I guess some error's are expected.
LinuxToday pushes that envelope to very edge, between fair use and copyright infringement. I dont mind them linking to me right now because I'm in the "starving artist" mode. However, when I do look at LinuxToday quotes, you do not have to go to the original article for the rest, because all the meat is there.
LinuxToday is not the only guilty one. A couple of others come to mind also, SlashDot, OSNEWS and countless others do the same. They either quote, or they paraphrase. Aren't those two outfits part of OSDN? Is the teapot calling the kettle black?
What do the big publishers offer over the little guy as far as real content? Nothing that I can see. They regurgitate press releases into original articles. They get company exec's time because of their supposedly large readership, and they squander that opportunity with dribble. When 99.9% of that readership is getting free subscriptions!
I've had my articles with web site enclosed in frames, other articles copied onto forums and so forth. How do I find these? Usually they are so lazy or in a haste they don't change URLs in the article itself, so I might get lucky and the log file will show hits on things that doesn't make sense. I visit their website, find a webmaster email and ask them to stop. I cannot afford fulltime attorney's. If I think infringer will give me more traffic, I want say anything.
Am I guilty in aiding and abetting by not saying anything in every single instance? Probably so.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 31, 2004 12:40 AMIts sad that people do not respect the work of others. They were probably raised by their parents in a bad environment without being taught "morals". Another alternative is the infringer thinks he/she will never get caught because the internet is a place of anonymity. It could be an honest mistake. I have caught myself doing the same due to excitement over the topic. When your self-editing I guess some error's are expected.
LinuxToday pushes that envelope to very edge, between fair use and copyright infringement. I dont mind them linking to me right now because I'm in the "starving artist" mode. However, when I do look at LinuxToday quotes, you do not have to go to the original article for the rest, because all the meat is there.
LinuxToday is not the only guilty one. A couple of others come to mind also, SlashDot, OSNEWS and countless others do the same. They either quote, or they paraphrase. Aren't those two outfits part of OSDN? Is the teapot calling the kettle black?
What do the big publishers offer over the little guy as far as real content? Nothing that I can see. They regurgitate press releases into original articles. They get company exec's time because of their supposedly large readership, and they squander that opportunity with dribble. When 99.9% of that readership is getting free subscriptions!
I've had my articles with web site enclosed in frames, other articles copied onto forums and so forth. How do I find these? Usually they are so lazy or in a haste they don't change URLs in the article itself, so I might get lucky and the log file will show hits on things that doesn't make sense. I visit their website, find a webmaster email and ask them to stop. I cannot afford fulltime attorney's. If I think infringer will give me more traffic, I want say anything.
Am I guilty in aiding and abetting by not saying anything in every single instance? Probably so.
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