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Originally Posted by Big Ray
Not my rules. I run the hosting. But I will say this.
It's Lensman's board. He has been running it for years his way. He has every right to run it the way HE wants to. If he doesn't want it, then isn't it his call?
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Like I said earlier, I understand that. It is his call to some extent. I'm just raising the issue that on GFY the posts belong to the authors and therefore DMCA notices coming from Lensman are unlikely to hold in court. They might scare some hosts or even the "leecher", but that's as far as it will go if it ever gets to that point. Especially if the "leecher" is merely a SE (publishing a very short excerpt along with a link directly to the GFY thread), which is exactly what STboards seems to be. As Joe said, his bot's activity equals to about 10 GFY regulars, each viewing 10% of the the daily posts. Clearly not enough to crash GFY.