Digital BW, The Print

After Yahoo reset all our privacy settings so we were signed up for spam 
without our permission and then signed us giving they permission to 
monitor our internet use again without our permission, I'm not sure they 
are going to do much sword rattling toward anyone. They are going to be 
quite busy answering questions from (at least) the FL attorney general 
over their violation of  consumer protection law. They are on pretty 
shaky ground on this issue.

Truman

J Greer wrote:

> I agree with Julian. Yahoo owns this content and an agreement would 
> need to
> be reached with them before using it. It costs Yahoo money to run this
> forum (computers, disk space, software, network lines, support personnel,
> on and on). What Yahoo gets in return is an avenue to shows us ads (if we
> access the forum via a Web browser), a targeted e-mail list for potential
> direct advertising, and a general (hopefully) positive experience with
> Yahoo that would cause us to choose Yahoo for other services and 
> information.
>
> By replicating forums posts and threads somewhere else, you have 
> diminished
> or completely removed the aforementioned benefits Yahoo gains from
> providing this forum at no cost to the participants. In my opinion, if 
> you
> don't contact Yahoo and obtain authorization to replicate this 
> content, you
> will likely face legal action in the future. Such action may be 
> potentially
> costly to you.
>
> Jeff Greer