Re: My Website Has Been Taken Down

[IUnknown <stevementzer@gmail.com>]

On Jan 24, 4:00 pm, Steven Lichter <diespamm...@ikillspammers.com>
wrote:
> nem wrote:
> > Steven Hirsch <snhir...@gmail.com> wrote in news:
>
> >> That's exactly correct.  Disney Enterprises maintains enough
> >> congress-critters (and at least one senator) as wholly-owned
> >> subsidiaries to ensure that nothing will ever enter the public domain
> >> again under US law.
>
> > Remember how Sonny Bono lobbied on behalf of Disney because he was afraid
> > of seeing the copyrights on his music expire? Suffice to say that his
> > copyrights aren't doing him much good now <vbg>.
>
> > The truth is that Disney thinks they can keep the rights to their 1930s
> > cartoons forever so that they can charge you $50 for a DVD set of them.
> > Since the people who made those cartoons are all dead, the money sure isn't
> > going to them.
>
> The money in many cases is going to the families or trusts.  Yes the
> studios are getting money.  It is not just laws in the US, there are
> International laws that are enforced by Interpol and other agencies,
> even China is starting to enforce.  Several years ago I went to the
> Software Publishers Association because a site was allowing D/L of code
> that I owned.  They refused to remove it and it took me a while to even
> locate the site, when I did I had the site removed and the SWPA took the
> legal action.  You are making the same claims as the Pirates made in the
> 80's, theft is theft.
>
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Steven, correct me if I am wrong.... but as I recall, you purchased
the rights to GBBS and then held onto them for a few years.... and
refused to sell anyone a license to operate it....

Honestly, if that was the case, I would have a hard time being
sympathetic to your cause....

Keep in mind that the word 'pirate' is thrown around a little to
easily these days. Technically, I am a 'pirate' for copying DVD's that
I legally own.

In my opinion, if a licensed publisher refuses to sell or support the
product, or is simply no longer in business... regardless of the
'legal ethics' (oxymoron alert) , I tend to side with the 'pirates'.