(and see no need to supply them with hits)
Yeah, I suspected as much... although in this case I was going to use their content not so much as news as for a launching point for a diatribe (Who, ME???). Too inconvenient
to be effective on this type of forum in any case, though, just as you say.
<<< grumble... >>>
I can't help but think (a) they're up against not us, but the fundamental anarchy of the Internet, and (b) there's gotta be a solution to this. For instance, while going after even one of them legally is a bottomless pit, getting a citation of precedent from an apparently unrelated court ruling somewhere, probably isn't. There'll be one sooner or later, whether it originates with a forum site like this or somewhere else.
For instance... if one person buys a newspaper and takes it home and shows it to 3 other people in his/her living room and they have a discussion about it, the fact that they've *showed* it to those other people cannot be construed to be copyright violation. So, a slick lawyer could easily make the case that a forum is the electronic equivalent of same, and that - HMMMMMM... << brain working feverishly... >>
What if the text that showed in the window of the post, was
actually displayed, *not* from what someone had cut-and-pasted into the "posting" form, but directly from the excerpted website, by Javascript (or whatever)?
JUST thinking outside the censoring-left-wing-scumbag-media-imposed BOX
here...