[CRS_META] Copyright violations on email lists

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim C." <crsociety at diethacker.com>
To: "Issues Related to List Rules/Management and the CR Society"
<crs_meta at lists.calorierestriction.org>
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CRS_META] Copyright violations on email lists


Do we want to start now or discuss further?  Compliance will
not be overnight and is not likely to ever be perfect.
Perfection is actually a fiction in this context given the
ambiguities.  Like with the trim rule, there is a bit of
retraining and posters must adapt to new list norms.

-Tim C.


Tangent:
Here are some crazy examples of copyright abuse on the net:

The copyright owner wastes their money on a lawyer, the alleged
"violator" complies with a takedown notice at little cost, and the
rest of world just think less of the copyright holder.  To this day,
and this is no lie, I will not eat a strawberry shortcake or shake
Tom Cruise's hand.

{I DO NOT disagree with you, Tim, I also refrain from publishing to the
network any such urls. That is further advertisement in a world where ANY
advertisement is good.
So if we adopt a position of just URLS, we waste a lot of time communicating
with maybe a one liner, often not an important item, and communicating all
the chaff on that website, AND the included viruses.

I do not click on most urls - bascially a waste of time.
As for copywrites, corporations must obey them or get sued. That's the price
of communication. Those corp's have assets.
Not sure how important it is to non-profit organizations.
But, I think it might be like Anderson accounting in the Enron debacle.

Regards