Millions of Blogs Knocked Offline By Legal Row 162
another random user writes with this excerpt from the BBC: "A row over a web article posted five years ago has led to 1.5 million educational blogs going offline. The Edublogs site went dark for about an hour after its hosting company, ServerBeach, pulled the plug. The hosting firm was responding to a copyright claim from publisher Pearson, which said one blog had been illegally sharing information it owned.
... The offending article was first published in November 2007 and made available a copy of a questionnaire, known as the Beck Hopelessness Scale, to a group of students. The copyright for the questionnaire is owned by Pearson, which asked ServerBeach to remove the content in late September."
Re:It's actually worse than stated... (Score:5, Funny)
Obligatory reference (Score:3, Funny)
I sense a great disturbance in the blogosphere, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out about useless bullshit, and were suddenly silenced...
Re:It's actually worse than stated... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A good reason to host your own blog (Score:4, Funny)
That's no big deal for much of the demographic here, but it might as well be written in Aramaic for a lot of people who just want to blog a bit about things that interest them.
Put another way: