Is this your picture?
Posted on 08/26/2011 5:42:59 PM PDT by central_va
Why did you pull this thread?
(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...
Bloomberg owns the content, we may not like their restrictions but it is their creation and their property and the rights of property and ownership of one’s creation trumps convenience in posting more than a link only.
Is this your picture?
Oh I see where your problem is...
You are under the mistaken impression that this is about "law".
This is about politics and money. Bloomberg will drag FR into court. Legally you may have done it right but that matters not. They will make FR pony up legal fees and court time. Same as the RIAA drug Mom's and Dad's into court and run up huge legal fees. Its a bullying tactic.
Being someone who pays the bills counts for naught.
The reason the last FReepathon took so long is because so many prior contributors got zotted over the years and therefore no longer contribute.
No matter how much you contribute, you still gotta follow the rulez...
Posting a link is NOT giving away content for free.
Hey Mod and Central_VA, how about this compromise. If Bloomberg sues AGAIN, Central_VA gives you the right to give Bloomberg’s lawyers all his personal information so they can sue him instead of FR and he can deal with the tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees to fight it.
You would agree to that wouldn’t you VA? :->
(and before you say, it can’t happen to you, Google Righthaven and see how many small, not for profit bloggers, have their asses handed to them in court over stuff like this.)
Umm, as you say.
This is the first time I saw a non-thread hijacked by its own the author over whether or not it was OK to publish non-publishable material.
So, is this a non-hijack?
Cool.
That’s for the owner of said content to decide. You don’t go to a store and decide what to pay for someone else’s product.
Sorry, but one of the few good things left about our society is, at least for now, we have the right to own our property and creation.
You wanna violate my copyright? You really wanna, Huh Punk?
It’s so time consuming and tedious to post a new thread that when it gets pulled there is definitely a pissed off factor.
Still would have been nice to know why without starting another thread to find out. Just say’in. ;-)
yes but... someone in the home office is hacking profile pages and changing entries -- thereby impersonating legitimate FReepers, and gawd only knows what else.
The place has been infected. I see somebody going by the handle of "Jim Robinson" is posting at a rate about 10 times his historical,ten year average.
Well, what do you expect? A popup window that tells you a source is banned???
Just sayin'.
It is a non-hijack of a non-thread. Kind of like arguing with yourself in the car and then realizing that seven lanes of traffic are staring at you.
If I rent a billboard on I-95 and print the first paragraph of a bloomberg article and say buy bloomberg magazine or go online and read the whole article. Could they sue me for that? I will follow FR the rules but the law is an ass and anyone who thinks otherwise is one too. When the rules don’t follow common sense then there will be times when “mistakes” are made.
See #3, ;-)
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