Same here. Who needs the aggravation....not to mention the added spam? I seem to get along just fine with what IS allowed to be posted in full on FR. Besides, the links are corrupt after awhile anyway, so to maintain any kind of connection to the text of an article, there needs to be a place where it can be readily accessed. FR provides such a place, complete with the discussion/debate generated by the articles. That is an invaluable tool in my opinion and one which makes FR unique.
I suspect that liberals would often rather that much information fade into oblivion. Truth and informed debate are their enemies, but as far as theft is concerned, I can't see it. News is news and this forum is public and non-commercial. After all, one can go to a public library and access virtually any newspaper article from any paper that has ever been printed on microfiche without commercial benefit to the paper in question and take the content to a discussion group. In essence, there is no difference.
You can manually go through all of those microfiche but an internet archive of articles allows you to search it quicker for specific words or phrases.
The Houston Comical has slowly been putting articles from the preinternet days into their online archives. They bought the Houston Post and shut it down. They tried to put their articles in the archive but got caught when some writers who never signed an internet release for the Comical complained. I believe that current staffers of the Houston Comical who were previously employed by the Houston Post have no ability to block the Comical from "selling" their Post articles online (subscribers get "free" access to the archives while individual articles can also be purchased).
Riddle me this:
Is it legal/ethical for the Houston Public Library to register their newspaper subscriptions into the Chronicle's website and then permit library patrons to search the online articles for free?