READ THIS Dallas Morning News (DMN) has demanded we no longer allow their content posted on CZ

[jazzcat22]

We've officially hit the big time!!!

Right, they are in fear that more people come here to get info than go to their lame website.

 

[jazzcat22]

I am going on my iPhone and iPad to dlete their apps.
Not that I even use it, but had it there for news and weather for local purposes. There are others I use before it anyway.

 

[aikemirv]

You can't even link to their website?

That seems pretty idiotic on their part.

A link is not content in any shape or form is it?

I don't see how a link is content. How can you own the address of an article?

 

[adbutcher]

We received a legal Cease & Desist order from the law firm of Dallas Morning News (DMN) today requesting we no longer allow DMN content on the site.

It's unfortunate given that we usually send DMN's web site several hundred users in traffic each day, but it is their choice and their content so we will abide with their legal order.

On the bright side, there are a lot of other great Cowboys news sources available which will help all of us keep up with the latest Cowboys news.

/reality

Well screw them. The only time I go to their site is via this site.

 

[ShortRound]

Doesn't this reduce traffic to their site? You would think they would want more sharing of their content?? Maybe I'm crazy.

 

[Pokes12]

We received a legal Cease & Desist order from the law firm of Dallas Morning News (DMN) today requesting we no longer allow DMN content on the site.

It's unfortunate given that we usually send DMN's web site several hundred users in traffic each day, but it is their choice and their content so we will abide with their legal order.

On the bright side, there are a lot of other great Cowboys news sources available which will help all of us keep up with the latest Cowboys news.

/reality

That is disappointing news. The newspaper business is under a lot of stress but I would have thought they would welcome referrals. My sense is tht the DMN will begin requiring subscriptions to read their web page. Their subscription base and ad revenue from old fashioned paper newspapering is going down the toiltet.

 

[Reality]

Its your site, I really don't care but this is what I found on a quick search.

You really should read my previous posts. I have answered this already more than once.

 

[65fastback2plus2]

Tell them to kick rocks and throw the letter away.

Fair use is what they get to abide by: https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html

 

[Swanny]

Doesn't this reduce traffic to their site? You would think they would want more sharing of their content?? Maybe I'm crazy.

I know for sure it will. I have never gone to there site without clicking on a link that was in this forum. I find this to be insane on there behalf

 

[65fastback2plus2]

A link is not content in any shape or form is it?

I don't see how a link is content. How can you own the address of an article?

This is how big companies screw over small guys.

Scare you with a letter that you have no money to fight back against even if you have a legit case/reason.

 

[yimyammer]

They must be on deaths door, their stance on this issue cannot help them in the slightest, in fact it makes me want to avoid them out of spite. I wouldn't even know what they're publishing if it wasn't for posts here which caused me to go to their website to read an article.

Now, I'll never go at all. Makes me wonder if the people in charge over there are over 60 and communicating via actual mail, fax and good ol' Morris code.

 

[CyberB0b]

Wow. The idiocy of a dying medium. There's no telling how much ad revenue you've provided with links to their content.

 

[Bullflop]

Like many other newspapers in the world today, DMN is becoming increasingly paranoid when it comes to the internet utilizing any of their content. Needless to say, newspapers in this day and age are in grave danger of being driven out of business. They see other media sources as a serious threat to their existence and understandably so -- they are exactly that.

This is certainly no imaginary concern, evident by the fact that newspapers around this country and the world in general are being forced out of business, due in no small part to other media sources rendering their existence a lost cause.

Having worked myself as a longtime newspaper employee in the past and seeing my former employer (The San Antonio Light) go extinct, it's not too difficult to understand their plight. Like many other employees of that long-existing metropolitan daily publication, I saw my career ending after 32 years in the industry. It's tough to see so many careers go up in smoke but they're now simply unfortunate victims of progress.

 

[wick]

It's a scare tactic. You can't prohibit somebody from posting a link to a website any more than you can prohibit somebody from emailing the DMN's physical address. But I wouldn't want to deal with any legal issues, either.

 

[CyberB0b]

It's a scare tactic. You can't prohibit somebody from posting a link to a website any more than you can prohibit somebody from emailing the DMN's physical address. But I wouldn't want to deal with any legal issues, either.

Yes, but they have a legal team. CZ probably doesn't want to devote the time or effort to that. Much easier to just cu it off and move on.

 

[Eric_Boyer]

legally, you can post a link. they chose to play hardball, so Reality is going to return the favor and prevent even linking to their site.

 

[MrPhil]

legally, you can post a link. they chose to play hardball, so Reality is going to return the favor and prevent even linking to their site.

And good riddance......

 

[ActualCowboysFan]

Their website is mobile cancer and whoever writes their titles is the king of clickbait. Good riddance

 

[The Fonz]

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2017/04/06/06-soup-****.w190.h190.2x.jpg

NO LINK FOR YOU​

Stupid move if you ask me
they are not the only place to get info.

 

[The Fonz]

no link at all is what I'm hearing

No link for you