As usual and per the AUP you agreed to when signing up for the site ... only quote a very small part of an article (paragraph or two) and then link to it. Quoting full or nearly full articles is copyright infringement.
Plus it seems the Blade has some real pricks working for it. My exchange with them:
Quote:On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:31:39 -0400, [REDACTED] <[REDACTED]@theblade.com> wrote:
> The Toledo Blade requests that you remove the following posts on your
> Toledo Rockets Launchpad forum from RangerRocket.
>
> RangerRocket is posting nearly full stories written by our newspaper
> staff and therefore violating our copyright. If these are not removed,
> an attorney for The Blade will be in contact.
>
>
> http://www.csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=645295
>
> http://www.csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=645294
>
> http://www.csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=645138
>
> Thank you for your cooperation.
>
Quote:Removed. 8/22/13, 2:55 PM ET.
In the future, be less of "I'll sue everyone!" dick. You get more flies with honey than vinegar, and you get enormous amounts of traffic from my site. I'm happy to comply with valid copyright requests like this one, as total policing of our nearly 10 million posts is impossible. However, if I had a nickel for every time somebody has threatened me with legal ruin for bogus reasons I could retire. I've had a doctor convicted of malpractice in the US who fled to Malaysia threatening to sue me under UNITED NATIONS laws because of posts discussing her shenanigans at the University of Cincinnati hospital were on the board. As a result, I have very low tolerance for somebody showing up in my email inbox doing the legal version of standing outside my house in a black suit, tie, sunglasses, and slowly beating a baseball bat into their palms. I can simply ban all links to the toledoblade altogether, which would impact your bottom line far more than three nearly full articles that still had links back.
(08-22-2013 02:08 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: [ -> ]Plus it seems the Blade has some real pricks working for it. My exchange with them:
No KIDDING!!!! lol
Hey GTS, you seen that G Tech convo video that went "viral?" Hilarious stuff
Nice site.
eastisbest G Tech '86'
My Blade supscription - Removed...
(08-22-2013 02:46 PM)RangerRocket Wrote: [ -> ]My Blade supscription - Removed...
Blowback in action.
Hmmm...wonder if the Blade patrols the BUGS message board with the same intensity...
Typical myopic and heavy handed Blah PoV. Their contempt for Toledo and their readers is unparalleled.
Let this be a lesson to you all...do not post links to Blade articles here anymore. The only reason I ever have access to them is because you all link them here.
In the future, let's just go with "I read in a local article that so and so broke his such and such, etc. and will be out for x amount of weeks."
I wish the university had enough money and local popularity to ban its city's newspaper from campus. That'd be a great news story...
The Blade's ownership and senior staff's heavy-handed attempts to bully and intimidate a variety of city officials and University officials in order to try to gain control over them is why the wife and I decided to cancel our subscription to the Blade about 15 years ago.
It is really too bad because they had some decent writers and reporters at that time and we enjoyed many of their feature articles and background stories; however, in the final analysis we just could not put up with the smug arrogance, hubris and self serving paternalism of John R. Block et al.
Today I feel pretty much the same way about all the lying mainstream media which is essentially controlled by six major corporations (that understandably tend to push their own agendas and to boot usually try to present news as "entertainment", or vice-versa) so I rely totally on the internet for the news (much of which is ONLY available there and can usually be found reported from several different perspectives).
The only links I ever click on/read from the Blah are articles about UT. I refuse to read any other articles. I almost think it would be a good thing for GTS to block all Blah links, that way they lose a good amount of traffic.
(08-22-2013 04:38 PM)T-Town Wrote: [ -> ]The Blade's ownership and senior staff's heavy-handed attempts to bully and intimidate a variety of city officials and University officials in order to try to gain control over them is why the wife and I decided to cancel our subscription to the Blade about 15 years ago.
^^^
This,
and the people and ideas they (and are) bullying were often people, ideas or politicians I didn't side with or outright didn't like but
a newspaper has no business trying to influence ANYTHING, let alone who gets elected.
(08-22-2013 05:06 PM)MidnightBlueGold Wrote: [ -> ]I almost think it would be a good thing for GTS to block all Blah links
I think so too...
What a bunch of loons. Only way I ever see the bllade.
(08-22-2013 02:08 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote: [ -> ]As usual and per the AUP you agreed to when signing up for the site ... only quote a very small part of an article (paragraph or two) and then link to it. Quoting full or nearly full articles is copyright infringement.
Plus it seems the Blade has some real pricks working for it. My exchange with them:
Quote:On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 12:31:39 -0400, [REDACTED] <[REDACTED]@theblade.com> wrote:
> The Toledo Blade requests that you remove the following posts on your
> Toledo Rockets Launchpad forum from RangerRocket.
>
> RangerRocket is posting nearly full stories written by our newspaper
> staff and therefore violating our copyright. If these are not removed,
> an attorney for The Blade will be in contact.
>
>
> http://www.csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=645295
>
> http://www.csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=645294
>
> http://www.csnbbs.com/showthread.php?tid=645138
>
> Thank you for your cooperation.
>
Quote:Removed. 8/22/13, 2:55 PM ET.
In the future, be less of "I'll sue everyone!" dick. You get more flies with honey than vinegar, and you get enormous amounts of traffic from my site. I'm happy to comply with valid copyright requests like this one, as total policing of our nearly 10 million posts is impossible. However, if I had a nickel for every time somebody has threatened me with legal ruin for bogus reasons I could retire. I've had a doctor convicted of malpractice in the US who fled to Malaysia threatening to sue me under UNITED NATIONS laws because of posts discussing her shenanigans at the University of Cincinnati hospital were on the board. As a result, I have very low tolerance for somebody showing up in my email inbox doing the legal version of standing outside my house in a black suit, tie, sunglasses, and slowly beating a baseball bat into their palms. I can simply ban all links to the toledoblade altogether, which would impact your bottom line far more than three nearly full articles that still had links back.
You ROCK, GTSwagger!!! I've been Block Free (Block's are the prick's that own the blade) for over 10 years. Now you know why too
Wish I subscribed so I could cancel.
maybe if the blade and buckeye cable didnt have a monopoly over the area, we could have another newspaper and cable company.
but this is what people who think they have the market cornered do. terrible bullies
(08-22-2013 05:15 PM)eastisbest Wrote: [ -> ] (08-22-2013 04:38 PM)T-Town Wrote: [ -> ]The Blade's ownership and senior staff's heavy-handed attempts to bully and intimidate a variety of city officials and University officials in order to try to gain control over them is why the wife and I decided to cancel our subscription to the Blade about 15 years ago.
^^^
This,
and the people and ideas they (and are) bullying were often people, ideas or politicians I didn't side with or outright didn't like but
a newspaper has no business trying to influence ANYTHING, let alone who gets elected.
their best friend for a long time was carty........he's one of the reasons why theres only buckeye cable.
(08-22-2013 07:16 PM)crusher38 Wrote: [ -> ]maybe if the blade and buckeye cable didnt have a monopoly over the area, we could have another newspaper and cable company.
but this is what people who think they have the market cornered do. terrible bullies
They lost my cable $ too. We got Time Warner out here as an option.
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