gaf
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Re: New Osdev portal - 2006/06/24 09:54
Hello Chase,
as a user of osdev.net for years now, I of course did recognized your old project list when it was posted here. The only reason I didn't intervene though, is that I basically assumed that the owner of the new portal had some agreement with you. After all such a cooperation would also have helped *him* to delovelop his site and to promote the portal..
Given that parts of the site really are a 1:1 rip-off of your old code, and that it cause unnecessary traffic to your site by not using the RSS system and updating its internal lists way too often, you probably have any legitimation to ban it right away.
Nevertheless I'm wondering if it wouldn't be smarter if you at least tried to find some "peacefull" solution first: You could just contact the site's admin, demanding that the issue get sorted out in say 4 weeks - if he doesn't respond to your mail, you can still block the site's IP..
Also keep in mind that the site is russian and that they might just have some more ehm.. "relaxed" idea about copy-right and intellectual property. If it really is a cultural misunderstanding they should respond to your mail.
Either way I hope this gets sorted out somehow..
regards,
gaf
(Chase's thread at mega-tokyo)
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