Recently, a member of the Lizzie Borden Society Forum kindly shared with me that she had found a new forum on Lizzie Borden and was surprised to see that so much of the group’s content was copy/pasted from my web site LizzieAndrewBorden.com. I tried to contact the group’s owners but they didn’t reply to my query. I hate when that happens. And especially frustrating was the fact that most of the content lifted belonged to so many different authors. Here is a link to the discussion about it on our Lizzie Borden Society Forum.
What was extra bad about all this was the person who did all the cut and pasting was the group’s administrator! And this is the same gal who had posted in her rules section the following:
“4. No theft of ideas! Copyright infringement will be reported! This site and all of its content is legally copyrighted and this rule will be enforced! Get permission and give credit! ♥ Please respect copyrights and bandwidth – do not steal.”
I wrote MSNGroups about it asking that the content be removed, and linked to just those posts that were guilty. I fully anticipated that just those posts would be erased as there were other discussions that did not involve material from my site. However, after a few days, I went and took a look and the entire group was gone. I guess MSN does not take kindly to people who do such things.
