Re: Once valid links are contributory infringements


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Posted by eat my shorts, dude on July 22, 1998 at 14:52:21:

In Reply to: Once valid links are contributory infringements posted by Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. on July 22, 1998 at 13:53:37:

: We regard as contributory infringements
: all links which did (or still do) point
: to a valid URL. Such violating links
: have now been found pointing to the
: following Internet Domains:

gee, aren't links similar to references? So under this same logic, discussing your book is copyright violation, because you are referencing your book. so by this same logic, your own home page here is a violator because it has the book title on it.


: deoxy.org
: intac.com
: levity.com
: bayon.net
:
: (and others not shown here)

: Please confer at the glossary and related
: documents of the Software Publishers
: Association at Internet URL:

: http://www.spa.org/piracy

: Last but not least, I object emphatically
: to the defamation, per se, which is found
: in the message below.

and I object to being SPAMMED by you


: Perhaps the guilty party will have enough
: courage to publisher his (her) name here.

that would be Eat My Shorts. Dude.


: Until then, you can count yourself among
: the many criminals who pollute the Internet
: with the very same kind of garbage which now
: spews from your keyboard.

and it would appear that you are an authority on that topic, now wouldn't it?


:
: Sincerely yours,

: /s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

:
: : What a total loser. I got one of these
: : harassing legal threats about a web page that
: : doesn't even have the "link of doom" on it.

: : I would expect that Mr. Mitchell would
: : "do his homework" before threatening people
: : on this.

: : I would also expect any lawyer that didn't get
: : a degree from a crackerjacks (tm) box to
: : understand the concept of harassment.

: : I wonder if a class-action harassment suit from
: : all of the tortured parties would deterr him
: : from sending out any more of this crap.


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