Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row

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:Do hosting companies have a clue?

[Richard_at_work]

Sue them for what, exactly? The site almost certainly breached its hosting agreement when they neglected to respond to the copyright infringement notice, and the hosting company tried to contact them several times over the issue - then they pulled the plug and things got sorted. Funny that, eh?

The key line missing from the summery is "ServerBeach said it had had to act because two requests to remove the content had been ignored."

So, fuck Edublogs, they had their chance.