I see where they hit one of our members as well, for keeping an archive of gun self defense articles.
They are going to try to shut down the freedom of speech and the internet as we know it because the “truth” is hurting them dearly and exposing their leftist, Marxist schemes. The internet is shining a bright light on all their ugliness. They are desperate and deadly serious.
Yup, they’re also going after DaveLoneRanger’s gun rights blog and basil’s Second Amendment Sisters organization. No blogger is safe from these yahoos even if they post excerpts only. In Second Amendment Sister’s case, it wasn’t even a post. I understand they simply had a feed running from another site. The other site had the allegedly infringing post in its feed.
It's a fact that this jacka$$ is doing this for no other reason that revenue. Claims that it's some sort of campaign to protect anyones copyrights are obviously just cover. The entire method stinks and seems to me should be somehow illegal and fall under a crime of conversion somehow... he's looking for reprints, THEN buying the copyright in order to cash in.
Now that I've said that, it only seems fair that when reposting someones material, it should be a short excerpt and a link to the original publisher. It's the only way they can collect the advertising revenue and continue to post the stuff online that we enjoy reading for free.
I don't think this approach is the right way to deal with the situation. Polite communication between site operators can clear up 99% of these things with no hassles.
I'm like most.. I'd like to see this shark dragging from a bumper somewhere, but we should also be taking into consideration the source of the material... and I'm speaking generally here, not in favor of these two conspirators here who are doing nothing more than strong-arming non-profits and bloggers for a quick buck.