Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:31:58 -0400
From: mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
CC: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Much fun! Re: [wsfa-forum] "If it's on the internet it's
 public domain"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
>> Elspeth Kovar <ekovar at panix.com> 11/4/2010 3:09 PM >>>
>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>> http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/11/04/the-stupidest-thing-an-editor-with=
> -three-decades-of-experience-has-said-about-the-web-today/#comments
>>> http://tinyurl.com/263lp3p
>>>
>>> Well, wasn't that special?
>> Following this has been tremendous fun.  It's hit Scalzi, Gaiman, The
>> Washington Post, and just keeps spreading.  Try google and you may not be =
>> able to keep up.
>>
>> There's also now a link (see the WPost article) to a FB page where people =
>> are tracking down and posting more and more copyright infringements, almost =
>> as a game.  I'm having a hard time getting work done today!
>
> It is not wise to make the InterWebs angry.

That's Internet... but reminds me of the first huge 'Net attack, the
Green Card Scam. '93? '94? Spring. Cantor and Siegel, two lawyers,
spammed *ALL* of usenet advertising green card services for legal
immigrants. Within 24 hours, their ISP had crashed three times under the
weight on incoming complaints of Fair Use violation, within a couple
more days, all legal documents that were public were posted, including
the info on the house they'd sold, the one they owned and rented out,
and the one they lived in. And, a week or week and a half later, the
entire text of his ->disbarment<- in two states for grossly cheating his
clients and doing what he had been hired for, nor returning unused money.

They eventually divorce, I think, and one of them died. They still
claimed there was no "community", and it was all a business opportunity.

mark
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