Tony Sidaway wrote:
On 4/20/06, Pete Bartlett pcb21@yahoo.com wrote:
I believe them when they say they are pro-Wikipedia.
That's a tad unbelievable. Have you actually *looked* at the content of the site? They're blatant trolls just dripping with the most poisonous malice, and they boast about their claimed abuse of administrator powers to put up copyright infringing and defamatory content that has been removed from the main site.
A person who makes an accusation of malice can leave himself open to the same charge.
If they infringe copyrigh or engage in defamation they're on their own if they have to defend themselves in court. Republishing copyvio material is not a violation of GFDL since GFDL could not apply to the original short-lived copyvio. The original writer may have a copyright in the defamatory material, but would probably be wise not to insist on his copyrights.
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