Re: Nathan vs Rubywand: Choose sides?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

apple2pd@icaen.uiowa.edu (ISCA AppleII Librarian) wrote:

>From nathan@visi.com Wed Apr  8 14:41:57 1998
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>   Your ftp site at ground.isca.uiowa.edu, directory apple2 contains
>many copyright infringing items which the admin is too cowardly to
>check on his own to find and delete. In the file
>'apple2/Faqs/F002ACCEL.TXT', there is an unauthorized editing and
>reposting of Frank M. Lin's mini Zip/TWGS FAQ which I hold the
>copyright for. Please delete asap. In addition, the 'F001C1CDROM.TXT'
>is a bastardized version of the Apple II CDROM FAQ. Delete as well.
>
>   All of the contents in that directory appear to be modified by
>'rubywand' a notorious pirate of Apple II stuff to promote piracy and
>theft thru your university's computers. There are many references to
>the ftp site 'ftp.apple.asimov.net' (or asimov.com, same thing) which
>is a pirate ftp site for material that ground at least recognizes as
>being illegal. But, in providing the links without any warning or the
>like, you are promoting piracy, and showing blatant disregard for
>intellectual property rights-- which uiowa.edu's computer acceptible
>usage policy prohibits. 
>
>   If these references cannot be edited by the sysadmin, the files
>should be removed and/or made unreadable on ground.isca.uiowa.edu and
>the mirror on liquefy. 
>
>   Thank your for your prompt attention to this matter.
>
>Nathan Mates
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>
> --Steve  (apple2pd@isca.uiowa.edu)

Steve, Rubywand said he was going to use some of my posts
and followups in his FAQ.

I hereby declare that Rubywand's use of my words in regards
to the use of Zip drives with the Apple High Speed SCSI card
is legal and with my full permission.

I am NOT a pirate.  I am NOT taking sides with piracy.  I DO
want to be a part of Rubywand's FAQ.

I appreciate the service that you, as ground librarian, and
Rubywand are doing for the Apple II community.  Thank you.

I think somebody else is working on an updated TWGS FAQ.
I suggest that they upload it to ground ASAP in order to not
compromise the FAQs on Ground.  If nobody has one, I will
be happy to write one (give it a few days in order to not
duplicate the effort)....

Nathan, FYI, what is said on usenet is like someone just
speaking in a public park.  It is not copyrighted in the
traditional sense or, at the very least, a gray area. Your own
FAQ documents are different, but DO NOT PRESUME TO
SPEAK FOR EVERYONE WHO WAS ARCHIVED ON THE
FAQ.

I guess by Nathan "let's beat up Rodney King" Mate's
definition, DejaNews is a pirate site.  ;-)