Morris Dovey wrote:

It's theft, and it honors no one.

If you don't want it copied, then copyright it. If you don't want it
copied for Personal use, don't put it on a public web site.

If your neighbors have that same opinion, you probably shouldn't park on
a public street.

Under international law, the copyright exists from the instant of
creation - and it exists without regard to location of its object.

Are you thinking you broke "international" law when you quoted
(copied/edited) someone's writing in a rec post, or do you think there
is some sort of implied permission to copy this copyrighted material?

I know Google must have copied trillions of copyrighted messages. I
don't recall allowing them to copy any of my messages and putting them
up for all to see, making money from all the ads my stuff is
generating... How about that?

--
Jack
"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong
enough to take everything you have".
-- Thomas Jefferson
http://jbstein.com