Mason,
I usually got your back on most issues. You are the head honcho, the creator of twoplustwo. With that said, the first link has to do with ignition and has some quoted post, along with Dan Druff's long thought out opinion and take on the issue. Instead of posting it on 2p2 he takes it to his own website, copies and quotes someones post but then in detail describes his own thoughts on the issue, which by the way, I was unaware of this site existed until now. This was the very first link I examined, so it wasnt exactly cut and dry plagiarism by any means. Without reading to much into it, the subject matter is relevant for some poker players and he did put the link at the bottom. While I am not sure if its fair use or not he at least is making an attempt.
It seems like there is a lot of fraud in poker and sometimes NVG threads are numerous and get locked/deleted or thrown to the bottom and never seen again. If there was a poker fraud site that could identify the scammers the poker community benefits, while that may or may not be outside of twoplustwo's monetary interest you will have a hard time convincing me that a website such as this one is a net negative for the poker community in general. I do not think its relevant in the argument but TwoPlusTwo is a massive success as a forum and I understand the need to protect it, but you can at least relate to the sentiment that these baby sites which are trying to grow are not some massive threat and overlooking some copyright issues (which you are not even clearly on and thus need a lawyer to clarify) can be occasionally acceptable.
On the other hand if hes being completely uncooperative, I understand but I just do not see how this is that big of a deal, hes not making a bunch of money from this, its a positive for the poker community to highlight popular topics. Unfortunately he should work with you and maybe give you $50 or $100 and let this go away. I mean really what are we talking about here?
Also, as a poster, I do not like this mentality of having post and my content now being owned by 2p2 where they are going to strictly enforce this concept. This is not how I envision the internet and forums working in an open market, and some people may visit pokerfraudalert who have not visited twoplustwo and there is some benefit in that itself. Okay everyone, looks like I will be taking a vacation for a few weeks, nice knowing you all
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