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

[Bruce .]

Why is IFI concealing the identity of this person?  If a lawsuit was
filed, his name is probably already in the public domain.  Ostracism
can be a powerful force.

On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Jerry Frost <akfrosty at mtaonline.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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Bruce
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