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Ziff Davis To Website: License To Link, Updated
Rothenberg writes: "Hey! I'm the executive editor in charge of eWEEK.com -- and before this situation unravels any farther, I need to make a couple of quick clarifications about our reprint policy:
While I haven't gotten all the details about what happened, this legal warning to PocketPCTools seems to be a result of miscommunication within our company. We understand and embrace the principles under which sites such as PocketPCTools link to and excerpt our content. There are plenty of occasions when a professional media company needs to question the wholesale appropriation of its content or the use of its marks. From everything I understand about the PocketPCTools case so far, this is NOT one of those occasions!
We're moving to correct the situation now ... PocketPCTools was apparently acting within the appropriate bounds of Web etiquette -- actually, doing us a favor by sending us the traffic -- and Ziff Davis was apparently mistaken in issuing this warning.
My personal apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this error. We're investigating the situation now and will act accordingly."
Did Slashdot get permission to link to this story?
Slashdot just posted a snippet from pocketpctools.com, and a link to their site. Let's hope pocketpctools.com doesn't threaten legal action.
Actually, to send the right message we should post a story about ZDnet and /. their servers. See how much traffic you would have missed if there was no link? Damn, ZDnet should pay /.
Your days are so totally numbered.
boycott ZDnet India!
or better yet, mod it and you both down for trolling or offtopic, yea, that w00d be FuNNi3z d00dz.....
(god damn, l33t wannabes suck)
Congratulations on being the first individual to wander along and comment on my purported action without reading TFA. From the aforementioned FA:
It is Ziff Davis (ZDNet) that has forced us to remove the story mentioned above. The original story was on eWeek.
Therefore, whatever parent company harrassed them must have been involved with eWeek.
QED.
Alito: A vote for Alito is a punch in the eye to put that bitch back in her place!
I think the key to a successful writing campaign is to be: 1) Polite 2) Respectful 3) Objective 4) To the point 5) Request a reply 6) Use your real name and city/state and send from the same email address they can reply to. What complete bullshit. I don't know what kind of idiot mentors you've had in your life, but I was always told the best way to get something done is to make damn sure everyone offending you knows it. Beyond that I really don't know that I have a point, so no further correspondence is nessecary. Yours Truly, Jon Johnson of Hicksville.
--fetch daddy's blue fright wig, i must be handsome when i release my rage
Greetings Matthew;
:-)
:-)
It rather sounds as if we're in violent agreement here.
I think I'd like to be a fly on the wall in the offices come tomorrow morning. I think I'd find I was living in some of those "interesting times" Confusious was fond of refering to.
Can the air conditioning handle the expected smoke?
Mmm, I suppose I'd better put in the obligatory smiley here, you might need it tomorrow.
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Cheers & good luck, Gene
I think it was just posted twice to milk karma out of a bad situation...
"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
Do we like Ziff-Davis now ... or hate 'em?
a. We'd be kinda DUMB; and
b. We'd have to expect that people would take umbrage, right?
c. PROFIT!!