It's not a matter of being offended. Why does anyone think I was offended? It's not a matter of copyright infringement, either. It is a matter of doing the right thing. The point of their Terms of Service is to prevent the content, *that they worked to produce*, from being copied *to other sites* (apparently, nhs67 just doesn't understand that, and it really doesn't take an Ivy League degree to understand it). How much of Flo's content is it okay to copy and post elsewhere? All of it? Most of it? Some of it?
How would the owners of this forum respond if someone who had a Rokfin subscription started copying their for-pay content into this not-for-pay forum, so that everyone could see it without providing any compensation?
Nice tone. It's called "doing the right thing." I'm sure that if you were a content creator whose livelihood relied in part on how many people came to your website, you'd have no problem at all with people copying it and pasting it elsewhere. Amirite?
Oh, and by the way, FloSports has the following in its Terms of Service:
So *this* site may not mind, but FloSports *explicitly* says that you can't just copy its Content. It's unlikely, but it may be that the moderator/owner of *this* site really wouldn't want such Content copied here in violation of the Terms of Service of FloSports. It's pretty apparent that the moderator/owner of that triathlon forum doesn't want that to happen there. Maybe that's because he is also a Content creator, and he understands the situation. And wants users to "do the right thing."
If you quote, then you deprive the source creator that additional hit to his/her web page. It's not about what is convenient to you, the reader: it's
about what is appropriate compensation for the use of someone else's work.
Here's a policy from a triathlon forum I frequent:
The owner/moderator takes this very seriously.
Themed puzzle.
36A Kind of wrestling ... or a hint to four pairs of crossing answers in this puzzle
GRECOROMAN
Each pair of crossing answers are the Greek and Roman name of a particular god (e.g., Poseidon and Neptune)
What's the evidence that there is this issue at these schools?
Out of curiosity, I checked Flo's class of 2023 recruitment list for top 100 recruits:
Brown: 2
Columbia: 0
Cornell: 4
Harvard: 1
Penn: 1
Princeton: 5
Stanford: 4
Something less than 10% of the D1 schools with 17% of the top 100 recruits.
2024
Cornell: 3
Penn: 2
Princeton: 2
Stanford: a whopping 7
There have been a number of Cornell wrestlers in the College of Engineering. Dom LaJoie, now a graduate transfer to Stanford, is but one recent example. Hatcher is there now.
Cardenas, Foca, and Fernandez are in the Architecture College, which is no walk in the park.
Provo, Cardenas, and Darrah (and perhaps others like Chayse LaJoie and Luthie?) all changed their commitment from Cornell to Stanford. Each of them, coincidentally, saw better guys at Cornell in their weight classes standing in the way for multiple years.
I didn't say he would (or even could) do it: I said it would be interesting if all that stood between Starocci and being a 4xer was a Cornell guy.
(Foca made a serious jump this year, obviously)
I had the pleasure of taking Sagan's Astronomy course (not the grad-level exobiology course) when he received his Pulitzer Prize for "The Dragons of Eden." Yes, he wore turtlenecks all the time.
I'm sure that each of those PSU guys whose major is listed as "RECREATION, PARK AND TOURISM MANAGEMENT" takes nothing but the most rigorous courses.
Which means that O'Toole can take the U23 spot without even wrestling for the National Team spot, thereby taking Ramirez' U23 spot. At least last year Cardenas kept his U23 spot because the guy who could take it lost his true third match.
Them's the rules.
In the class of 2023, along with Shapiro, they have #27 Ruiz (170), #54 Milani (120), and #63 Dellagatta (195). Stanford has #s 28, 49, 56, and 60.
The fact that Shapiro, the bluest blue chip of the class, is still committed to Cornell speaks volumes.