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I say we start Freeping the Net to shut down ANY other site which engages in activity which is forbidden here...
Sounds good to me. :o)

As I understand it, if we can DOCUMENT that the lawyers from USA Today know about other violators of its "no full text, no excerpting" policy, and do nothing to restrain THEM, they considerably weaken their case for any future action against US.

So...

Hey, USA Today lawyers: Investigate THIS!

From a "site-specific" Google search for site:www.commondreams.org "usa today":

Results 1 - 10 of about 276 from www.commondreams.org for "usa today"

Voting Process Too Important to Leave to Technology

Published on Saturday, December 6, 2003 by USA Today. Voting Process Too Important to Leave to Technology. ... Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. ...
www.commondreams.org/views03/1206-06.htm - 17k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush Approval Tumbling; Worst Marks Since 2001

Published on Friday, September 12, 2003 by the USA Today. Bush's ... Sept. 11 attacks two years ago, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows. ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0912-02.htm - 90k - Cached - Similar pages

Monthly Costs of Iraq, Afghan Wars Approach That of Vietnam

Published on Monday, September 8, 2003 by USA Today. Monthly ... Despeignes. © Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ###. ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0908-01.htm - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

Nations Back Off Sending Troops to Iraq

Published on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 by the USA Today. Nations Back Off Sending Troops to Iraq. ... Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ###. ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1028-10.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Defense Memo: A Grim Outlook

Published on Wednesday, October 22, 2003 by USA Today. Defense Memo: A Grim Outlook. ... Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ###. ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1022-01.htm - 19k - Cached - Similar pages

My Silence Cannot Be Bought

Published on Friday, December 19, 2003 by the USA Today. My Silence Cannot Be Bought. ... Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ###. ...
www.commondreams.org/views03/1220-04.htm - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

Army Reserve Fears Troop Exodus

Published on Tuesday, September 30, 2003 by USA Today...
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0930-03.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

Bush Retreats from Mideast Peace Efforts

Published on Tuesday, October 28, 2003 by the USA Today. Bush Retreats from Mideast Peace Efforts. ... Copyright 2003 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Co. Inc. ...
www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1028-08.htm - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Note thst **I** only posted the "title and a link" to these CLEAR violations of their policy.

I did remove TWO of the first ten Google hits found by this serach, as they only referred to USA Today; the others listed above are all "FULL TEXT" USA Today articles - currently posted on www.commondreams.org.

Seriously, what we need is an Archive site. The Archive site would have two levels of security. Level 1 users could search and retrieve any article they posted to the site, they would not be able to see articles other user posted. Level two users would be able to search and see the entire site. Might enable level one users to search entire site, but only retrieve article matadata.

What do yall think, if the site admin was careful about giving out level 2 access this might work, web crawers can't get to well protected directories. Such at site could give level two access to FR moderaters and respected freepers, it would not be accessible to the public, search engines would not detect it. And it would be easy to do? What do yall think?