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Righthaven sues for control of Drudge Report Domain (INFOWAR)
Twitter @Drudgereport ^ | 12/10/2010 | Eriq Gardner

Posted on 12/10/2010 11:56:05 AM PST by dila813

You have to go through Google because of posting rules.

(Excerpt) Read more at google.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: censorship; copyright; dmca; drudge; fairuse; lvrj; righthaven; righthavenllc; stephensmediagroup; thomasmitchell
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They are now trying to take the Drudgereport Site over. So much for free speech.

Righthaven is friends with Obama, they are going to try and take this down before 2012.

They are baking a cake.

1 posted on 12/10/2010 11:56:11 AM PST by dila813
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To: dila813

Even if DrudgeReport has to change domains, it’s still just a simple html page that can be moved easily. No biggie.


2 posted on 12/10/2010 11:58:34 AM PST by Skeez (O)
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To: dila813

Righthaven has picked on the wrong site; Drudge will counter-sue them into oblivion & bankruptcy.


3 posted on 12/10/2010 11:59:01 AM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: dila813

702-477-3830 Las Vegas Review-Journal’s Lawyer. Ask for their Policy on Linking in Writing. Don’t get Sued for Linking.


4 posted on 12/10/2010 11:59:21 AM PST by dila813
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To: dila813

They going for the domain because they know Drudge can easily afford the standard $75K extortion fee they been charging bloggers.


5 posted on 12/10/2010 11:59:27 AM PST by Domandred (Fdisk, format, and reinstall the entire .gov system.)
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To: Domandred

They want to get the domain so they can resell it to the Democrats or reroute all the traffic to a news site that gives the regimes message.

You know, this is how it all starts.

Look at other countries, the regime takes down offending news sources one by one until only the approved news is left.

This is the work of the Democrats.


6 posted on 12/10/2010 12:03:01 PM PST by dila813
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To: SandRat

Frightening times.


7 posted on 12/10/2010 12:03:58 PM PST by onyx (If you truly support Sarah Palin and want on her busy ping list, let me know!)
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To: dila813

Tutorial to boycott RIGHTHAVEN clients:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2640808/posts
HOSTS File Blocklist of RIGHTHAVEN Clients as of Dec 5 2010
Dec 10 2010 | JerseyHighlander

Posted on Friday, December 10, 2010 2:46:46 PM by JerseyHighlander


8 posted on 12/10/2010 12:05:35 PM PST by JerseyHighlander (p.s. The word 'bloggers' is not in the freerepublic spellcheck dictionary?!)
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To: Skeez

You don’t have a clue.

Me thinks you’re on the wrong fourum.


9 posted on 12/10/2010 12:05:41 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: dila813
Not to worry...We have the fearless butt-kicking GOP-leadership RINOs who will find a compromise that pleases the statists and shafts Americans...

Just take a close look at the Christmas porkulus bill they've agreed to...What an incredible example of strength-of-backbone!

10 posted on 12/10/2010 12:12:28 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: dila813

I see they are grasping at straws. The left thinks they have a new system set up to shut down or damage Drudge like sites. Apparently their model is flawed because the article cites all the losses they have had doing this. Now they are teaming up with another group to do the same thing? This has embarrassing failure written all over it. Screw you Righthaven.


11 posted on 12/10/2010 12:14:03 PM PST by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: dila813

I’m generally not big on boycotts, but I think the time has come to take action.

“Copyright protection” is being used as the key to open the door to limiting freedom of expression on the internet. Groups like Righthaven have crossed the line.


12 posted on 12/10/2010 12:14:24 PM PST by Brookhaven (Voter Fraud is Treason)
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To: dila813

The DrudgeReport is worthless without Drudge. He will simply start a new site and continue.


13 posted on 12/10/2010 12:14:44 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: Jim Robinson

FYI Ping!


14 posted on 12/10/2010 12:15:32 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: dila813

So this is why the FCC wants authority to shut down websites.

Part of the plan to silence the opposition.

Remember you cretin, January 3rd is coming!

Pubbies remember, you were empowered to fix this problem, not dance around it.

IT IS TIME to DownSize DC!!!


15 posted on 12/10/2010 12:16:26 PM PST by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.)
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To: dila813

Drudge posted a single picture from their paper. So they want to take one of the most known domains on the net. Seems proporionate to me. /sarc

This guys is a step below a lawyer that follows ambulances to the hospital.


16 posted on 12/10/2010 12:17:26 PM PST by November 2010
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To: onyx
Frightening times.

Nah, just history repeating itself. The same losers will lose again.

17 posted on 12/10/2010 12:18:55 PM PST by DTogo (High time to bring back the Sons of Liberty !!)
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To: dila813
You have to go through Google because of posting rules.

Since Drudge only links to news stories, shouldn't search engines fall under the same copyright infringements?

I mean, using their logic.

18 posted on 12/10/2010 12:19:42 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (The Tree of Liberty did not grow from an ACORN!)
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To: dila813
Now, for the rest of the story. Although those look like WILD HYENAS they belong to a landowner somewhere in Africa.

They are NOT in and of themselves a news story ~ they are property, and if a picture of them is to be used commercially (as in a copyright infringement case) the photographer better have obtained a release (or permit) from the OWNER to sell his story ~ or even give it away (this will be the case even for animals in a publicly owned animal reserve).

The current copyright holder, RightHaven, best also have a copy of that release. Without the release it can't be their property or copyright.

My first defense here would be to tell RightHaven "show me your release". And then sue the blazes out of them, their heirs and assigns, for all sorts of stuff that even they can't afford to defend. Sue Stevens too.

19 posted on 12/10/2010 12:21:08 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: dila813; Las Vegas Ron

It’s past time for us to use similar tactics and to hit Huffington Post (it’s their Drudge) as well as Salon, Gawker, MSNBC, Vanity Fair and the rest with everything we’ve got. No more bringing rubber knives to a gunfight.


20 posted on 12/10/2010 12:21:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." CS Lewis)
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