In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
murr rhame <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jul 1999, Stephanie da Silva wrote:
>
>> As I mentioned before, I tried subscr|bing to the
>> list-managers list at eGroups and got this welcome message.
>> As you can see, it's marked as being at eGroups but it is
>> without a doubt the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
>
>How were you able to determine that the eGroups "list-managers'
>is the same as the GreatCircle list of the same name?
>
>> Did I miss something where eGroups made a pact with thousands
>> of existing lists or are they hijacking lists?
>
>If they are claiming ownership of lists that are owned and
>operated by others and they don't have permission, they must be
>actively seeking a wide verity fraud problems, both civil and
>criminal... I would hope that they aren't that bold and that
>dumb.
It appears that you hope in vain.
As regards criminal law, I don't see how that is involved.
A civil suit would however have considerable merit, in my opinion.
Now it is just a question of who wants to step up to the plate and
file such an action.
An interesting possibility:
I am hardly a law historian, but I would wager that there has rarely, if
ever, been any such thing as a class action copyright infringement suit.
(I dunno. Maybe the recent suit relating to Diamond Multimedia's Rio
MP3 player was one. I think the whole recording industry sued them.
But still, it is a definite novelty, I think.)
Anyway, perhaps the participants on this list, in particular, might want
to band together and make some legal history.
I mean after all, if any of you are unhappy that these eGroups folks are
(it appears) just snatching your lists and then ``rebranding'' them, would
you really be satisfied if you were only able to get them to cease and
desist from doing that to YOUR lists? Or would you find it more enjoyable
to get them to stop doing this to ALL lists?
The only way to legally compel them to do the latter, I believe, would be
via a class action. Otherwise, the most you can do, legally, is to compel
them to stop snatching YOUR lists (which I suspect that they are willing to
do for any list owner who bitches loud enough anyway).
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