Re: TOM - THIS IS SERIOUS
It is a pain, but I have been warning about this for a long time. They are going back to old posts, probably using search features. They are mainly concerned with the posting of entire articles, or large portions of them. They don't mind a short excerpt with a link, but there's no way I can go back and check 300,000 posts, so they all have to get deleted.
I just went into the database, did a global delete of any post that had those site's mentioned (assuming they were spelled correctly
). I don't know the exact extent of the damage because any time the first post in a thread is deleted, the whole thread gets deleted. And if the first post had one of those site's names, then I assume the whole thread talked about it, so that's probably OK. I think it affected about 200-300 posts out of the those 300,000.
By the way Steady, it is not really censorship on their part, it's copyright problems. They don't care what you say, as long as it is not taking the material from their sites,and I see their point. Unfortunately that means I have to censor our readers. It probably means no more links to their sites as my scripts will likely flag and delete the posts. Also Steady, deleting your 6100 posts would do too much damage for many reasons, including it affecting many other posts after yours. As Birchtree suggested, that won't be necessary.
If anyone sees their sites being mentioned, please let me know. Also, if you see articles posted that are more than just a few sentences, please PM me. Thanks for helping!
Here the email I received, and this is the 2nd one:
Your site or a user of your site has posted copyrighted articles belonging to Military Times Media Group. Some examples of such unauthorized use can be found at the following urls:
Headline: New TSP options likely
Link: http://tsptalk.com/mb/...... (post deleted)
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Within 24 hours of your receipt of this email, you should reply to this message by confirming that: 1) each and every posting of [Newspaper] material has been taken down and 2) you will not engage in any further unauthorized copying of [Newspaper] materials.
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