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rovingcowboy - Jun-01-2004 server time

Rats!!!!!!! its gone i did not even get there i got a 404 page not found error

Red Squirrel - Jun-01-2004 server time

haha. I'm part of a forum where tech site admins post at and one of them sent a pretty scarry legal email, so I assume it worked.

C-well - Jun-01-2004 server time

Looks like the whole site is down to a few remaining pages with advertisements, for the time being.

How Lame

manadren - Jun-01-2004 server time

True, but it does mention the original source on each article, albeit there's no links to the sources, and the site itself sports no original content of it's own, though if you look at the about page, the site promises to distribute information, not actually produce any content. So yeah, I don't think the site will last very long if this continues, and he may end up pissing off the people who actually wrote those articles, but he's not ripping as he never claims it to be his own work. It's more along the lines of something like reprinting without express consent.

UPDATE:
Looks like they wised up. They removed all the articles for the time being, noting on the front page that they reoved them because "the content in some of them did not belong to us"

Red Squirrel - May-31-2004 server time

Check out this site, they ripped off content from a bunch of tech sites.

http://www.advancemypc.com/articles/list.php

I don't expect this site to be available for too long.

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