Slightly OT: Bastard plagiarists

Well, I did some more sleuthing, and finally found this buttmunch's profile. It included his Yahoo IM name so I promptly IM'd him. Turns out he is the site admin and, in fact, he sees no problem with publishing other people's hard work whatsoever. His defense: "I do it all the time, relax dude." That, of course, just ticked me off even more. He also went out of his way to assert that "ur a prick" for questioning his ethics. Oh, and his next defense was that he's older than me and worth millions, so clearly that means he knows more about the world. And in closing, he suggests that maybe he'll take it down, maybe he won't; that I shouldn't bother him because he's tired; and that if I want to maybe I should sue him. ETHICS. Not a new philosophy. -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of 'Computer Collector Newsletter' Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2006 10:53 PM To: 'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts' Subject: Slightly OT: Bastard plagiarists Someone copied almost my ENTIRE pda history site onto the web forum at http://tinyurl.com/bhvpv ... Does anyone know what the deal is with this "britishinformation.com" site anyway? The thief who stole my work even included the hyperlinks but they don't work. The site includes a web form for contacting them so I sent a not-so-nice message, but I'm not optimistic about hearing back. Unfortunately I don't see any way to contact the user who posted this. ----------------------------------------- Evan Koblentz's personal homepage: http://www.snarc.net Computer Collector Newsletter: Mid-Atlantic Retro Computing Hobbyists & Museum: