Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:31:34 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>, <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>

> mark <whitroth at 5-cent.us> 11/4/2010 8:31 PM >>>
>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-wi=
th=
>> -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.

Would you be surprised to know there's a wiki entry for them?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Canter_and_Martha_Siegel

mjw