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Re: NEWS: Paramount is Shutting Down Trek Websites!!!
Quark's Latinum Lady wrote:
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> Paramount is cracking down on Star Trek websites that violate copyright law by using
> copyrighted pictures, photos, art, logos, movies, sounds, characters, etc. Some
> webmasters have already received a letter warning them to remove all copyrighted materials
> from their sites. Chris Harrison has this letter posted, which you can read at:
>
> http://www.igs.net/~chrisharr/startrek.html
My first reaction is to *angrily* SHOUT: WHAT THE HELL DO
THEY THINK THEY ARE DOIN' ?
Then , my second one is to think about what we can do about that,
how we can react and make them understand they're making a
*huge* mistake. I mean, the whole "official" stuff you can
find on the Web is crap. I don't use Internet Explorer and so I can't
go the MS Star Trek site. The Paramount thing is lame and really only
the fans have been able to do something great with the whole thing !
ST lives thanks to whom, do you think ? OK, they produce it, but
without us they're dead ! I wish we could do something like they
did back in the 1968, but this time about *thier* rights and *ours*,
that is, to enjoy ourselves by sharing what we like with other fans.
Only a very small percentage of people makes money out of fandom.
The great majority simply has fun with it, nothing else !
Opinion, anyone ?
Joelle ( who could really puts her money on something else if needed)
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