Up until the controversy broke, this was the warning posted on the website/blog:
A subscription is required at North Country Gazette. We allow only one free read per visitor. We are currently gathering IPs and computer info on persistent intruders who refuse to buy subscription and are engaging in a theft of services. We have engaged an attorney who will be doing a bulk subpoena demand on each ISP involved, particularly Verizon Droids, Frontier and Road Runner, and will then pursue individual legal actions.
# 20 ReadyKilowatt said, on October 29th, 2010 at 7:21 pm
Rupert Murdoch is kicking himself for not thinking of this first.
Look for a merger with News Corp next week.
When I first read this article, I thought that this has to a Murdoch publication.
Is this a tale of things to come or just some stupid little paper ?
Sure newspapers have an issue – they have to be on the internet – yet how do you make money on it ?
Yet wake up boys , times have changed , you are no longer flyers with newswire articles with which to make scads of money on selling ads – that were of little effective use what so ever
Its now the day of narrowcasting not broadcasting
Wake up your hands are tied with costs of buildings , unions and gasp high priced execs who dream up such stupidity’
Have you never heard of changing ip and clearing cookies. You can bet that since you have a local paper that there are only a few isps, with few ranges of ips
It is not like someone in China has any use for your rag
Its a brave new world out there, wake up
Little things for little minds
Dead print media’
The main good use for trees now is now to burn in your furnace this winter
Dead tree Media
This brings up an issue I have wondered about for years.
Can a website ban the police/FBI/CIA from reading it?
It seems like the same laws which make hacking illegal, could also make government snooping without a warrant illegal.
Just put in the TOS that government employees are forbidden to enter your web site without approval. Then, if you catch them snooping, go after them the same way software and music companies go after people.
This one is such a nobrainer. Just don’t go to the website. I usually avoid websites with lot’s of popups and adverts too. It’s as easy as moving your right finger down a fraction of an inch on a thing they call a mouse.
Seems to me the issue is one of common sense: should you be able to go out on a street corner and yell as loud as possible and then command people to pay you for what they hear, or to not listen?
Analogy is not precise as always but close enough to the degree that starting a non password protected website is yelling to the public. I would dismiss all filed lawsuits with costs to the defendants. Cops are allowed to listen as well when in the public.
“There should be a law” setting up the rules of the internet. Almost doesn’t even matter what the rule is, as long as it is easy to understand and follow. Simple.
Well, I’m concerned they can take down their web site.
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The Google reader thing really worked. I thought it was funny and I was surprised that it worked.
I did not read anything, I just wanted to … them.
The police say there is no reasonable expectation of privacy when you walk down my public street and somebody sees your fat ass also walking down the public street.
By the same token, no company has any reasonable expectation of privacy when they put up their fat-ass website on the public internet.
When I click the link in the article to visit the web site
http://northcountrygazette.org/
then I get a 403 Forbidden error. I am using Chrome browser.
But when I paste it into a new IE instance, I don’t get the forbidden message.
What’s up with that??
I think the guys at 4chan blew them away.
Need 4chan to review this.
This seems like a perfect argument for making them take “Due Care” to keep their restricted content, well, restricted!
You know, if society really went to pieces, people like these would be the first to go. And all the celebrities. And all the politicians. What are we waiting for?
Ah, the power of Tor.