[WikiEN-l] Yet another legal threat

[Puppy]

Good grief, even if he weren't a kook, his writing is atrocious:

"We also was recently hacked and even embezzlement of funds occurred by 
hacking that coincide with recent Wikipedia activity against the company"

This guy is planning a trip to the moon?


Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> In this thread:
> http://wikipediareview.com/index.php?showtopic=7820
>
> somebody allegedly associated with The American Mutoscope and 
> Biograph Company is threatening to sue Wikipedia over his company 
> being "done wrong".
>
> >From what I can gather, the company of that name was active in the 
> early days of motion pictures, from the 1890s through the 1920s, but 
> faded out and went completely out of business by the 1930s.  Somebody 
> with no apparent true connection with the original company went into 
> business in the 1990s under that name (long after all of the original 
> company's copyrights and trademarks had lapsed into the public 
> domain), and is making questionable claims at being the legitimate 
> continuer of the original company's tradition, along with some other 
> wacky claims such as saying they have purchased land on the Moon on 
> which they soon will be filming movies.
>
> Of course, Wikipedia is "evil" because it fails to take all of this 
> guy's claims at face value, and persists in having an article about 
> the classic original company (which is legitimately notable in the 
> early history of the movie industry) with only a brief paragraph 
> noting the existence of an unrelated new company of the same name.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Mutoscope_and_Biograph_Company
>
> Naturally, this guy's claims and whines are getting a favorable 
> reception over on Wikipedia Review, where they see no anti-Wikipedia 
> rant they don't like.
>
>