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Re: Weasel

a2history wrote:

I just today discovered that some weasel has downloaded the entire
Apple II History site and uploaded it to his own server, replacing my
name with the name of his duplicate site everywhere the (C)opyright
symbol is used. The site is

http://lowestar.com

I honestly don't know that there is much I can do about this. The
email link on the site does not respond in the same way as it does on
my site, so I suspect that it does nothing, and so there is no way to
directly contact this person.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do with this site?


My first reaction was that this was an outrageous act of copying
a site without permission--which it was.

My second reaction was to save it in my Favorites as a "backup" of
the a2history site.  ;-)

Certainly, you should have been asked for permission to mirror your
site--no question.  But having your site redundant on the web actually
has some advantages (as well as the disadvantage that the mirror could
go "out of sync" with your official site).

Perhaps communication could lead to some mutually beneficial result...
(and, again, I agree that the cloner had the first duty to communicate).

The copying appears to have been done mechanically, with many external
links messed up.  A real *mirror* would be a better approach.

-michael

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