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Originally Posted by Lensman
Board republishers and search engines are two different things.
And taking content without respecting the wishes of the site spidered is content theft.
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STBoards is a search engine in every respect. There may be other leechers who operate sites that republish entire GFY threads, but I'm assuming we're still discussing SrchTheBoards.
It may be 'content theft' (which in the case of STBoards it is clearly not), but you need to realize that you're not the owner of the users' posts on GFY, not until you clearly specify this in the terms & conditions of the forum. From my experience, the absence of a specific statement means that the copyright belongs to the author of the post.