Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @02:47AM from the hopelessly-disproportionate dept.

another random user writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A row over a web article posted five years ago has led to 1.5 million educational blogs going offline. The Edublogs site went dark for about an hour after its hosting company, ServerBeach, pulled the plug. The hosting firm was responding to a copyright claim from publisher Pearson, which said one blog had been illegally sharing information it owned. ... The offending article was first published in November 2007 and made available a copy of a questionnaire, known as the Beck Hopelessness Scale, to a group of students. The copyright for the questionnaire is owned by Pearson, which asked ServerBeach to remove the content in late September."

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Re:It's actually worse than stated... by BMOC · 2012-10-16 03:08 · Score: 5, Funny

I was trying to be vague to avoid any possible DMCA takedown notice, now see what you've done...

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Re:It's actually worse than stated... by chalkyj · 2012-10-16 03:41 · Score: 5, Funny

What sort of world would we be living in if you couldn't make a big fat profit out of suicide prevention? Certainly not a world I'd want to live in...