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This would be funny -- IF it weren't so disgusting. Especially Knight's experience. Hell, he would be well within his moral rights to bite back, dragging those, um, so-and-so's into court.

This is beyond belief. A very few times other webmasters have used something of mine on their for-profit websites, and I haven't minded a bit -- hey, every bit of boost helps. (And they invariably gave credit and a link to my site.) And I've not heard a peep of protest from them when I've crowed about it and used something from their piece back on my own site. That's just friendly back-scratching, in my view.

There are legitimate complaints, of course, but I'm not comfortable with holding a site like YouTube.com responsible; doing so reminds me of U.S. courts holding gun manufacturers responsible for some criminal using one of thir weapons during a crime. Hey, if I buy a big wrench at Sears then use it to beat somebody to death, Sears is responsible and ought to pay big bucks, right??? Or maybe one of the carmakers needs to cough up serious dough if I'm in one of their products and deliberately run someone over. Let's make it even more ludicrous. Say I use some tissue (something such as the trademarked Kleenex) to stuff up someone's throat and nostrils, causing that person to suffocate. Bingo! Kleenex, or whoever, has to fork over the mullah.

You folks at Viacom, *find* a life in this context. Protect your artists, etc., but hassling Knight is way, way over the top.

Kurt T. Francis
Bangkok, Thailand