Re: Gary gives up ** RGP Radio shuts down **


"Dave Mabry" <dmabry@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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metallik wrote:
I, for one, am sorry to see something that enhanced the hobby for me go
away. And it is especially troublesome that part of the cause of its
demise was the hacking into Jeff's web site.


Did anyone actually prove this? It's not like gary hasn't lied in the
past... :) I sincerely doubt anyone hacked anything - it's just
another excuse of gary's.

Well, let me say one thing about that. I've seen similar things from
"someone" in this ng. There was a time, some of you will remember, that I
recorded a TV show on the History Channel. It was called "The History of
Pinball" and it was a cute 1/2 hour show. It was not offered for sale on
the History Channel and many people here had not seen it. And it was not
scheduled for another airing. I put it on a Bit Torrent tracker for
anyone to share. There were many here who didn't want to bother to learn
to use bittorrent. Jeff offered to host that show on his web site so it
would be a simple download. It was about 2.5GB and Jeff paid extra out of
his pocket so that he could give back to the hobby. It was downloaded
about 700 times (as I recall) and cost Jeff quite a bit, more than he
expected. But he was willing to do it to give back to his customers.

Well, for some reason, someone in the ng decided that they would call the
History Channel and tattle that Jeff was hosting their copyrighted
material. How ironic! The History Channel contacted Jeff's ISP and his
web site was taken down for that infringement. Hosting a 30 minute show
for those in this hobby who wanted to see it... This is the same group
that jumps all over Gene or Wayne when they try to enforce copyrights they
own the rights to.

So, I don't doubt it a bit. There are those in this group who will go to
great lengths when they don't like someone. And "hacking" a web site,
whatever the details are, is exactly the kind of thing I would expect. So
I am puzzled by anyone's incredulity about this.

Very well said Dave.


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