I think I'm in huskernation's corner on this one.
I respect the paid services and their need to protect their content. And if 20 is in the wrong, then the post should be removed. In fact, maybe it should just be hidden in the meantime until it's resolved. Sort of like how YouTube takes down videos when they receive a takedown notice, but they can be restored if you successfully fight off the notice. Not a great system but on a smaller scale it's more sensible.
On the other hand, I don't think 20 violated any board rules. Members are definitely allowed and have been giving out information - they just aren't allowed to copy and paste, right?
From Rivals: Bubba Starling reportedly clocked a 4.36 in the 40 yard dash yesterday. That is extremely fast for a guy his height!!!
I don't see how this is substantially different from saying "according to Rivals, was just offered by ____". All it is is a dash time. The content item itself should just be on HI, but that doesn't seem like the content item. Can they keep
facts from leaking out to other places? Not sure they have any control over that.
I feel that this should be handled internally (rather than making a public request in the thread) but not a big deal either ways. Just less messy that way (having members clutter the thread with comments about it).
I also feel the burden of proof should be on the HI folk. Maybe we can hide the post temporarily as an injuctive measure in deference to HuskersIllustrated, but ask them to supply the original post in question for purposes of our review of the matter. I don't know, is that a bit much? I suppose it is paid content. Then again, it doesn't strike me as good form for them to email this complaint without providing clear documentation about it.
In any case, there's a lot of gray area in terms of what can be allowed and what can't, I suppose. It's unclear to me that "John Talman's post" was taken over to this board.
But on the other hand, I guess it's not "just" a 40 time either. There's the fact that he ran it yesterday. So even though it's not much, I can see why they would be extremely displeased at a leak such as this. HN20 should probably be advised to be a lot more judicious (and maybe slow, just out of respect for the paid subscribers of HI) with his updates, so that he's not just a direct pipeline of info that pumps out stuff as soon as it gets posted. But I don't think there's a case for a ban here. Unless Mr. Talman can show that his post got the copy/paste treatment. Which I sort of doubt.
This is a bit of a sticky spot because we do have to treat the HuskerIllustrated folk well too, and handle this case cordially and thoroughly for them...I just really don't see it, though.
