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From: Claude Greengrass <Heart@Beat.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: ATTN: Mike re JRGB
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:57:56 +0300, Bob O'Dyne
<bob@anodyne.nul.which.is.quite.invalid> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 21:01:24 -0600, Claude Greengrass
><Heart@Beat.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I got a nastygram from Giga for posting illegal material, even
>> though all I did was post a comment regarding those posts. That's the
>> second time I've been called in the carpet by Giga for just commenting
>> on a post. These lawyers report you for just commenting on a post. I
>> think all my comments on posts from now on will be independent of the
>> uploaded files themselves.
>
>The same thing has just happened to me. It appears that the US rights
>to GBRJ are owned (or perhaps managed) by "CBS Studios Inc and
>Showtime Networks Inc" and they are VERY aggressive about DMCA.
>There's a clause in the Giganews DMCA user agreement (I forget the
>exact location) that could be construed as allowing GN to punish
>innocent bystanders like ourselves. I've disputed both posting bans
>but have not had a response after two days. I don't have much hope to
>be honest.
>
>> Pissed me off so much, I told them to buzz off (in a lot coarser
>> language), got myself a new service and terminated my Giga account
>> after years with them. Got a better one with longer retention and half
>> the price. I told Giga if they're too lazy to evaluate just WHAT my
>> post was, and terminated by posting capability regardless, I sure as
>> hell wasn't going to pay full price for service with half the
>> capability. Screw em.
>
>What are`you using? I signed up for a free-trial one-month account on
>news.forteinc.com but that's just an Easynews feed which Forte Agent
>markets and which I'm using in order to send this and similar
>messages. I can still download files from GN and will continue to do
>so until the end of the current billing cycle. After that I'm ditching
>them unless the SOBs restore my posting privileges before then. I may
>even do so in any case. I'm trying to decide where to go to. Eweka
>looks good. Not least because they're based in Holland and are outside
>the DMCA jurisdiction.
Heard Forteinc is good. Let me know how it works out for you.
In the interim, any feedback I give on posts in the future will be de
novo comments not replies to posts. In fact, I'll just use the posters
handle in subject line and leave it at that, not mentioning the title
of the upload itself.
Just looked up Eweka; prices look pretty good, too. May keep them in
mind for possible future use.
Claude
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