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Idiots. Here's at least 1 Internet-savvy user who won't be providing them with any additional advertising revenue due to this childish request!
Exactly. Hypothetically, if everyone who viewed their article threads at SpursTalk instead viewed the articles on Express-News' website, the E-N would gain a couple bucks in ad revenue per article -- at most.
Idiots. Here's at least 1 Internet-savvy user who won't be providing them with any additional advertising revenue due to this childish request!
don't sell gas holmes
The Express and News ?!?!?
Those guys are s !!!
Same here. I only buy the Sunday paper occasionally for the coupons.
I don't see the problem with EN.
People are copying and pasting entire articles from their site.
That's illegal.
Damn they butthurt.
wow....
I must admit, there have been a few times that we requested an article not be posted in it's entirety. One quick PM to timvp and it was always resolved amicably.
I personally value the relationship we have with this board and most of it's members. However it does hurt (from a user's perspective) that there will be one less outlet for Spurs coverage on the board.
Here's hoping that all this may get worked out in due time
Last edited by spursdotcom; 03-12-2010 at 03:23 PM.
They have to protect their interests. I suppose ST is peanuts in the grand scheme of things, but I understand why E-N's lawyers would search for people to threaten and then bill E-N for their efforts.
This is why Blackjack (or whoever it is) only posts a couple of sentences of 48MoH posts, along with a link.
2 sentences? Jesus Christ.
At this point, I'm not so sure it has to do with making a few bucks, rather than getting continually slammed by spurstalk poster on a regular basis. They're probably fed up. It too detracts business away from E-N. I wonder if Spurs report got the same letter.
Last edited by murpjf88; 03-12-2010 at 03:26 PM.
I always thought Blackjack was the author
It's a history in the making!
Never ever in a history EN had so much attention being poited on them
My favorite Spurs feature is Matt Bonner's sandwich blog and you guys provide that, so I'm set.wow....
I must admit, there have been a few times that we requested an article not be posted in it's entirety. One quick PM to timvp and it was always resolved amicably.
I personally value the relationship we have with this board and most of it's members. However it does hurt that there will be one less outlet for Spurs coverage on the board.
Here's hoping that all this may get worked out in due time
Actually, this will reduce bandwidth usage considerably for SpursTalk.com also, now that we won't have 30 or so posts pointing out what's wrong with each McDonald/Monroe story...
if they wanted to increase traffic....attached porn links to their site, fkn oxymorons have nothing else to do pickin on lil bros...
Well I think I can now be aware to post three words in the same sequence EN posted same words.
- I might not post anything then.
Is there a way you can find out thier ip subnet and block them. Im sure those ass hat writers come in here looking for ideas on what to write about.
Wait a minute, am I understanding Kori's response correctly? Will you be taking down ALL E-N threads and posts, even if they comply with E-N's request? Is that really how you want to play it?
I'd rather see two sentences, a le, and a link, than nothing at all. Couldn't you charm your way into getting E-N to allow, say, a whole paragraph instead of two sentences?
Yup, someone must have been insulted.
The lamest aspect is that we've personally helped E-N writers in the past with stories. Guess this is the thanks.
Oh well. This request is within their rights.
You're right. That's why I was totally fine when the Associated Press demanded the same thing from all message boards, like SpursTalk.
However, this is a local, newspaper that probably gains as much from Spurstalk as Spurstalk gains from them. You would just expect an "unspoken" agreement between to two with Spurstalk providing the links to MySA.com, while MySA.com used Spurstalk as a means to gain ideas and news updates.
Given the lack of quality of the latest E-N articles, ST won't lose a lot of interesting content.
What sucks is that there should have thousands of E-N articles posted on ST. I guess it will take some time to Kori to remove them all. Good luck to you.
damn what a buch of pussies
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