[TheForge] Anyone know why IForgeIron dot com is down?

[Jerry Frost]

The policy is prominent on the IFI subscription page. It's a public site 
whatever you post becomes property of the public domain. By posting you 
are in express agreement to abide by IFI policies. It so states up front 
and in many places. I've suggested to Glenn he include a legal agreement 
button or box on the subscription page reading something like, "I've 
read understand and agree to, bla, bla, bla,." We've seen them on almost 
any site we, sign onto, download from, etc.

The problem here however seems to be a disgruntled individual with 
enough money and a lawyer with poor enough ethics to file malicious 
suits expressly to do harm. The term that comes to my mind is "malicious 
abuse of process." The legal system just HATES it when people play this 
game and that a lawyer is involved puts his shyster butt on the line in 
many ways, up to and including criminal action. From what I understand 
the disgruntled individual who's backing the game is not a lawyer nor 
representing himself. I really can't imagine a poor enough lawyer to 
think there's a chance in hell he'd make anything in contingency.

Any IFI member or ex-member can request any or all of his/er material be 
removed from IFI and it'll be removed just as fast as practical, usually 
within a day. The guys are really busy so PMs, e-mails, requests, 
complaints, etc, may hang for a while before they can even read them. 
This guy's material was removed in toto at his first request, this 
further action is apparently just vengence.

Jer


On 7/14/2013 6:10 PM, CGRAF wrote:
> One thing we have done on a site that I help run is a written policy 
> on the site stating that all materials remain the sole property of the 
> author and that they can remove the items themselves at any time of 
> their choosing.
>
> Mike Graf
>
> On 7/14/2013 7:50 PM, Ed Eccleston wrote:
>> So, if an author sends his own copyrighted material, of his own 
>> volition, to a basically public website, at any time he can 
>> effectively change his mind and make the website criminally liable 
>> for continuing to make said material available?  Just don't sound 
>> right in America.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>> On Jul 14, 2013, at 5:40 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
>>
>>> On 7/14/2013 12:25 PM, Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
>>>> Sigh, ugly!...Modern times i guess.
>>>> Thanks Jerry.
>>>
>>> Yeah, ugly it is and it's just one guy with a grudge and money.
>>>
>>> Jer