My bookkeeper called me frantically because she'd done a search on TZ Holdings LLC (my company, which owns Silicon Investor, which I'm sure is the target) and saw that Rockhaven had filed suit against us and another party.
I believe I saw them and possibly commented on them when I saw this rolled out as a new business model, and those comments would not have been very positive at all, but they also wouldn't have been copyright infringement.
I'm looking but have yet to find where I've been informed of a possible violation via the simple reporting method included on the site.
I do see that my traffic yesterday was 50% higher than a week ago and income from just one ad network about 110% higher. And it looks like today's numbers will have similar gains.
We're pretty aggressive, when informed by copyright holders, about stamping it out on the site and always advise members to only post a relevant excerpt and always with a link to the full content so that the owner can get the free advertising benefit.
I get far too many new posts daily to ever even contemplate reading all of it to see if anyone's breaking our rules. We rely on tattling.
Robert (Bob) Zumbrunnen
Managing Partner, TZ Holdings LLC
Owner, SiliconInvestor.Com
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My bookkeeper called me frantically because she'd done a search on TZ Holdings LLC (my company, which owns Silicon Investor, which I'm sure is the target) and saw that Rockhaven had filed suit against us and another party.
I believe I saw them and possibly commented on them when I saw this rolled out as a new business model, and those comments would not have been very positive at all, but they also wouldn't have been copyright infringement.
I'm looking but have yet to find where I've been informed of a possible violation via the simple reporting method included on the site.
I do see that my traffic yesterday was 50% higher than a week ago and income from just one ad network about 110% higher. And it looks like today's numbers will have similar gains.
We're pretty aggressive, when informed by copyright holders, about stamping it out on the site and always advise members to only post a relevant excerpt and always with a link to the full content so that the owner can get the free advertising benefit.
I get far too many new posts daily to ever even contemplate reading all of it to see if anyone's breaking our rules. We rely on tattling.
Robert (Bob) Zumbrunnen
Managing Partner, TZ Holdings LLC
Owner, SiliconInvestor.Com