[Bob J]

I don’t think you read my entire reply. If the WAPO (and LA Times) wanted to shut FR down they could have done it very easily by pressing their monetary claims of copyright infringement which included a “per violation” penalty.

They didn’t. They accepted Jims offer of yanking every article already posted and excerpting and linking in the future. To me and others involved this showed they were only interested in protecting their copyrighted properties and setting a legal precedent for future violations.

At that time the anti-freepers were notifying publications about FR. Copyright law is clear that when a potential violation “becomes known” to the holder that they must take action to protect that copyright or they could lose legal protections in the future. If there are small websites who use their work who they don’t go after it’s because they are too small or insignificant to address and can fall back on the excuse that they weren’t aware of it. If they went after every single violation in cyberspace the legal cost on their end would be significant, so they pick and choose the targets to keep their legal costs down and do just enough to be able to claim they are infact attempting to protect those copyrights.

Now you can run around with your pitchfork claiming the sky is falling but all that gets you is tired and hoarse.

[E.G.C.]

You know, sir I've read your posts on this subject and I have a lot more important to do here than to waste my time trying to address this issue.

I did read your entire reply. What I'm simply trying to say here newspapers like the Washington Post will sometimes missuse and abuse their rights under such things as copyright when it suits their own social and political agenda.

And, whether you or anyone else like me saying it or not, the reality is the sky is falling and if we don't do something about it we're going to end up with an America similar to Zimbabwe.

And it is my intention to continue addressing this issue of the mainstream press for as long as it takes for people to get their attention and recgonize that these people don't have the best of intentions.

FR certainly did the right thing to settle this because had they not, it would have gone out of business. Website like FR are very important especially right now since there is a lot at stake in this year's election.

Now, you can poo-poo it all you want but the reality is there's way too much on the line for people like me to just sit down, shut up and except this horrible treatment that we have bee and are continuing to get at the hands of the establishment news media.