What's odd that most of this was settled, what, 15 years ago when forums first appeared? The Zoo (Yahoo) found it impossible to manage, RB, TMF, others found Fair Use rules that satisfied everyone, and it's been pretty peaceful for the last decade.. TMF is rigid about their rules, short sumaries and links, or at least just a paragraph or so and nobody messes with it.. So these thugs come along and try to shake down the little guys... It won't work, and hopefully they are scrutinized themselves... hang 'em high!
All the best, looking back at your old "personal"page reminded me of a couple I had up on AOL and another site... Now with so much so readily available, and other venues like Twitter, FaceBook, the days of personal pages has slipped away... My old ones are likely still up somewhere,no way to get at 'em to tear 'em down!
All the best...
weco
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