Re: Darwin Professional Underwriters - Tech-404.com

["Dianne Murray" <murray.dianne () gmail com>]

I'm pretty sure attrition could sue these clowns at Darwin for hefty
damages, payment for use of the service or else that the feed they've
stolen shut down (and so maybe Darwin should receive a "Darwin Award")

On 4/15/07, Avery Sawaba <avery.sawaba () gmail com> wrote:
> Oopsie. Someone forgot to read the terms of use!
>
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>
> On 4/15/07, lyger <lyger () attrition org> wrote:
> > For anyone interested, we came across a curious situation in the last
> week.
> > It seems that a company by the name of Darwin Professional Underwriters
> took it
> > upon themselves to "borrow" attrition.org's RSS feed and incorporate it
> into
> > one of their own pages, found here:
> >
> > http://www.tech-404.com/rss/data_loss.aspx
> >
> > Darwin is a provider of commercial services for "liability insurance".
> Press
> > releases have been issued, media attention has been gained, and Darwin has
> > gathered quite a bit of press and attention regarding their "data loss
> > calculator" in the last week.  However, it should be noted that Darwin IN
> NO
> > WAY contacted attrition.org about using our RSS feed for their page.  In
> NO WAY
> > did Darwin responnd to email contact about this situation.  They are using
> OUR
> > resources that we spent our own time developing and making available to
> the
> > public... for their own commercial gain.  They're ripping off
> attrition.org,
> > and we will not let this stand.
> >
> > Darwin representatives, get a set of balls.  Our work.  Our time.  You owe
> us.
> > Take it down or we'll just clown you again.
> >
> > Oh, wait...
> >
> > we already did.
> >
> > http://www.tech-404.com/rss/data_loss.aspx
> >
> > Lyger ( attrition.org staff, damn proud of it, and screw you, Darwin)
> >
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