Bernard Wilds' website of rare JFK research PDFs

[Pat Speer]

Bernard wrote me a week or so ago, and said he was adding pdfs from my website to his. I didn't know how to respond. I just responded, saying that since my website is still active, and constantly being updated and revised, I'd prefer for him to post links to my website, as long as it was active.

And now I see this thread. If someone had a similar objection, they should have asked that he post links to their material. As a result, I suspect the shut-down is related to someone's being worried about their material being available at all. I'm wondering who this is--someone who turned their website into a book, perhaps? Or someone whose perspectives and claims have drastically changed over the years? Perhaps Jim Hargrove can better explain.

[W. Tracy Parnell]

I think it is pretty clear that someone objected to their copyrighted material being made available for free. Obviously, they hope to sell some more copies of their work and don't want it to be considered public domain, yet at least. EDIT BTW, every person whose work was placed on this site should have been consulted before doing so. Perhaps then it would not be necessary to take down the entire site.

Edited July 4, 2018 by W. Tracy Parnell

[Jim Hargrove]

On 7/3/2018 at 9:08 AM, Jim Hargrove said:

A critical letter was sent out to Bernard Wilds and cc’d to me, Jim Di, Larry Hancock and others by a well-known researcher objecting to the site.  I don’t know if he wants his name publicized, and so I won’t.  It probably had something to do with the take-down.

Since the writer didn't respond to my request to post the letter here, there isn't much more I want to say. It was, obviously, an objection over copyright infringement.   

[Steve Thomas]

15 minutes ago, Jim Hargrove said:

Since the writer didn't respond to my request to post the letter here, there isn't much more I want to say. It was, obviously, an objection over copyright infringement.   

Jim,

 

Can you at least say whether the author of the letter you received was a published author of a work that was included on the site?

 

Steve Thomas

[Micah Mileto]

10 hours ago, Ray Mitcham said:

That's been blocked as well, Micah.

It shouldn't be. Works for me. Will it work if you use the Google translate proxy?

[Micah Mileto]

Intellectual property laws are proof that Capitalism doesn't work. Trying to sell a product of which there exists infinity free copies of, and THEN thinking violators should be punished for being smart and not paying? A system that relies on human kindness will never work. Ironically that's often a fake argument against socialism.

[Robert Harper]

Did anyone happen to be prescient enough to freeze-frame or web-page-capture that site when it was up? I'd love a poster of it--- the colors, graphics, different use of words, sheer volume of books was something to see and appreciate (imho).

[Robert Harper]

On 7/4/2018 at 9:26 PM, Micah Mileto said:

Intellectual property laws are proof

They are proof that they can be bought and paid for, that's for sure. The latest extension was the "Disney" one where kids who painted pictures of Mickey Mouse  on a mural could be criminalized until 90 years after the death of  it's creator. That is some protection for an "idea." It used to be about 15 years or so after the work itself--more and more extensions - and now the latest, 90 years after the death? Did these future generations of estate holding lawyer paying people get this latest one passed? When all you have to do is to buy  a majority of 535 people in Washington, the job gets easier.

 

[Micah Mileto]

Upload all of your good stuff at these Russian sites, where the copyright Nazis can't reach, not Google which has no freedom.

 

http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ aka http://libgen.io/

 

Username: genesis, Password upload (these logins are used by everybody). Just can't be over 350 MB.

Edited July 8, 2018 by Micah Mileto