Bill, Tom,
I recently sent this to the list:
For those that are not aware, an outfit known as
"FamilyDiscovery" has
linked many USGW member pages to its FOR-CHARGE page. While I am primarily
concerned with North Carolina hijackings, all states are involved. I
hardly think that the subscription of $49.95 is worth looking at links
that are ordinarily free.
I suggest that anyone that has links on their pages should issue a "cease
and desist" order against FamilyDiscovery. While this is a "members-only"
page, any state can be accessed as follows:
click on:
http://www.familydiscovery.com/Records/states/northcarolina.htm
and replace "northcarolina" with your state name
In North Carolina, the following counties and pages seem to involved:
Cherokee
Lincoln
Burke
Yancey
Buncombe
Clay
all of Bill Floyd's cemetery records
Registrant:
Brad Cook (FAMILYDISCOVERY2-DOM)
373 Cambridge Drive
Cedar Rapids, IA 52402
US
Domain Name:
FAMILYDISCOVERY.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact:
Abodeey, Elias (EAP259) email(a)FAMILYDISCOVERY.COM
Family Discovery
PO BOX 83
Hiawatha , IA 52233
3193637000 (FAX) 3193637000
Record last updated on 25-Sep-2000.
Record expires on 07-Jan-2002.
Record created on 07-Jan-2000.
Database last updated on 28-Sep-2000 07:59:47 EDT.
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.4SERVERS.COM 209.176.24.140
NS2.4SERVERS.COM 209.176.21.100
--Derick S. Hartshorn
ASC-NCGW
I just sent a letter to the offender which I have copied below. I suggest
that you put a copyright notice on your page(s) and take similar action
against these people.
Elias Abodeey, et al
Your "for-a-fee" page:
http://www.familydiscovery.com/Records/states/northcarolina.htm
contains the following copyrighted pages which are the property of the
NCGenWeb, an affiliate of the USGenWeb. Your decision to link the pages to
a for-profit enterprise is in direct violation of the US Copyright law.
You are hearby instructed to remove these links from your for-fee page or
be subjected to civil and criminal penalties of the law.
All other pages which comprise the counties of Lincoln, Cherokee,
Yancey,
Buncombe, and Clay which you have linked to are also in violation of the
law. Your immediate compliance is requested and expected.
Derick S. Hartshorn
Asst. State Coordinator-NCGW
Page owner-Burke Co., NC NCGW