[Rebelbase]

The scrubbing and purging of an the FR news archive continues. Given time, we will be reduced to excerpts only.

[mhking]

The scrubbing and purging of an the FR news archive continues. Given time, we will be reduced to excerpts only.

I realize that the perception of "fair use" differs between parties, but as some others have pointed out, that fight may need to be fought by either those with deeper pockets, or those who are more "politically correct" than we are.

[ProfoundMan]

You're perhaps more right than you know. I worked for a competitor of Lexis-Nexis for quite some time and the push for digital rights management was quite strong from the copyright holders. We had a system to allow customers to pay more to distribute their downloaded info to larger audiences but it was voluntary. You can guess how many folks volunteered. This is what drives the push for the rights management stuff. The publishers will essentially destroy the intellectual market of their ideas to gain a few more cents on the distribution market.

What we're seeing with Corbis and the like is just the beginning. Crawlers and spiders searching your drives for copyrighted material aren't that far off. The RIAA stuff is just annoying, limiting access to thought is criminal.