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Whisky Started conversation Dec 9, 2004
Just a quick one...
God only knows how but Google threw this web page at me this afternoon...
http://familyrightsassociation.com/info/law/all_about_miranda/The%20Sixth%20Amendment.htm
Not sure what, if anything, you want to do about it... I suppose they are crediting the beeb in a way - after all, they've copied the whole darned page - including the BBC toolbar at the top 
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Dec 9, 2004
There are several like that out there, in different places on the web. I've complained to the site owners (and even the server owners, in one case) when I was one of the authors on the entry being copied.
Some people just don't get it.
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GreyDesk Posted Dec 10, 2004
The interesting thing to me is that if you click on the link to the conversation "Sixth Amendment" which says it was posted 3 days ago. It takes you to the conversation as dished up by the Beeb's servers, and you find that the posting was actually made on the 2nd July 2002. So this copied page has been out there undiscovered for quite some considerable time now.
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Smij - Formerly Jimster Posted Dec 10, 2004
We're still having debates about this in the Towers, but I'm of the opinion that so long as the entry retains the credit and the links to h2g2 we should be glad that people will take the time to consider us a valued research. I'm not 100% convinced this isn't just a URL divert rather than a complete theft, in which case we still get the hit. But again, there seems to be some debate about that.
I don't think this is at all the same as that eejit who created his very own h2g2 on a Proboard the other week. That really was cheeky. 
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Whisky Posted Dec 10, 2004
I suspect it's a copy of the source HTML - look at the dates of postings etc, they're not dynamic or being updated.
But I see what you mean though, all the links take you straight back to the BBC...
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Mikey the Humming Mouse - A3938628 Learn More About the Edited Guide! Posted Dec 10, 2004
What annoys me quite a bit more are the places that have just copied and pasted text wholesale -- in many cases, without even crediting the source.
However, I would have thought that the BBC would get up in arms about someone copying the whole page like that, as to a random joe, it could look like an actual BBC page -- but without necessarily following the BBC content regulations.
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. Posted Dec 10, 2004
They've put at the very top of their HTML <!-- saved from url=(0047)http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A356816 --> as though it's some sort of credit 
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- 4: Smij - Formerly Jimster (Dec 10, 2004)
- 5: Whisky (Dec 10, 2004)
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