“Standard” Practice Takes Down Alaska Standard?
An attempted visit to local conservative pundit Dan Fagan’s site, The Alaska Standard reveals this:
Dum-da-dum-dum…..
(strokes chin)
A little bird told me this has everything to do with The Alaska Standard‘s standard practice of taking photos for use on their site, without permission from this site that actually owns the photos. What’s the word for that again?…. Hmmm. (thumbing through dictionary) Ah! That’s it!
Main Entry: 1stealPronunciation: \ˈstēl\Function: verbInflected Form(s): stole \ˈstōl\; sto·len \ˈstō-lən\; steal·ingEtymology: Middle English stelen, from Old English stelan; akin to Old High German stelan to stealDate: before 12th centuryintransitive verb 1 : to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice
Guess they should have brushed up on their Old High German.
I wonder if Fagan is crying like crybaby Becky right now. =)
AKM, you missed the “you can’t make this stuff up” tag!
ok, I am lost in Florida… I am getting something like a “Gator” website…
didn’t know Global Warming had permitted alligators to migrate this far North.
Anyway, clue me in?
Laughing my head off!
I was checking out an article on that site when it went poof!! That was way cool!
Oh, if we could harness the power behind that…endless possibilities..!
WOW, though it serves them right (pun intended, or not…).
It’s that Palin bad karma thing – I knew he’d inhaled way to many Palin fumes and got too much palin dust in his eyes. Inevitable. Next!
ha… couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy, eh.
I’m shocked, shocked I say!
I know this isn’t the place for song lyrics but I can’t resist:
“D-M-C-A, It’s fun to play with the D-M-C-A”
“Borrowing” copyrighted stuff will make Internet Service Providers stand up and take notice. Suspension while the DMCA claim is processed is standard.
The whole site seems to have “This account has been suspended” whatever you try to access.
It ain’t stealin’ if it’s fur the Right or a troo krishtin. Rede yer Biibl.
The idiot loser, he went to so much trouble trying to get visitors to his hate site – even a professed change of personality. I’ve always made a point of avoiding the odious little creep.
Well well well.
You would think respecting copyrights is something Dan Fagan and his motley crew would have done. After all they have enough reasons to misbehave in other ways.
Didn’t Dan Fagan pull a switcheroo months ago and apologize to all he wronged? Including the infamous quitter? Back then it seemed like a melodramatic exercise in absolution and repentance.
As I recall, a C4P nutjob joined the Standard’s staff. How did that work out for them?
too bad – the other day, Dan had an audio on his site where he interviewed Frank Murkowski to get Frank’s opinion on why Palin quit. It was interesting.
I doubt the audio link will work (due to the site being down, duh) but here is what it said:
Frank “The Bank” on Sarah “The Quitter”
By Dan Fagan
Publisher
The Alaska Standard
“Former Governor Frank Murkowski made a startling observation about former Governor Sarah Palin on my radio show yesterday. Murkowski wondered if Palin quit because prospects of the gas pipeline were dimming. I also asked Murkowski if he planned on buying Palin’s book. To hear his answer click on the audio link below.”
http://www.thealaskastandard.com/content/frank–bank-sarah–quitter
Other words that come to mind are copyright violation, plagiarism and intellectual property rights.
May I assume Fagan dropped out of High School as an explanation for his utter lack of knowledge regarding copyright, plagiarism and proper citations? Not to mention the courtesy of asking permission?
Of course, if Fagan is a republican, that could explain everything.
So the Mudflats Law Department has joined the Art Department and the Research Department and the Fact Check Department and the ….
As Nelson Munz might say, “Haw, Haw!”
Wow. Dan Fagan’s site is on Bluehost too.
Except mine’s still live, because I don’t violate copyright.
Nyah nyah.
Guess next time he does that, he’ll ask Dennis permission to use those photos, like you and others do. Silly Nilly Denny Poo. Ouch copyright violations is what it’s called.
Karma done bit him in the nether regions!! Guffaw, guffaw. Anybody care to meet in the treehouse and gloat?
Your site is still alive, Mel Green, because you possess integrity, you are a better writer and you are a hell of a lot better looking that snaggletooth Fagan.
you betcha!
Oh… and you are not part of the dark side.
#FAIL
Or it could be for non-payment. That’s the standard error page used for that too
My favorite part of this is that local conservative bully Eddie Burke decided to back up the person who filed the complaint against The Alaska Standard (Dan Fagan the proprietor of that site and Burke have rival radio programs), and attack Fagan on the radio for being a thief.
This irritated Fagan who started to bad mouth Eddie on HIS radio program.
So now two of our local conservative blow hards are engaged in a p***ing contest, that was started by a complaint from a pajama clad blogger. And here I sit without any popcorn.
or maybe someone did not like what Murkowski said about why palin quit and the pipe line. We all hear from Levi’s family how the GOP took dow sites and took pictures off their computers!!!!
Thou shalt not steal, Mr. Fagan. Especially not from those smarter than you.
It serves him, right. He should know better.
Oopsie on Alaska Standard! Guess they didn’t read rules and if they did, blew them off. Either way, sounds like standard practice of many Republicans. I won’t miss it (the website).
LOL at Gryphen. Seriously….with everything going on these days you need to go to Costco and stock up on popcorn.
Mel Green: I love your site!
He should have listened to Moses……………
Well, Fagan’s site is back up. But just on the home page alone he is hotlinking to 7 photos from other websites. Not only is he violating copyright law, he is also stealing their bandwith.
But he is a typical Republican. They steal intellectual property a lot. Remember Palin using Heart’s “Barracuda” without their permission?
And Republican Senate candidate Charles DeVore used two of Don Henley’s songs, “The Boys of Summer” and “All She Wants to Do Is Dance”, without permission.
Michigan Republican Tim Walberg used a photograph belonging to wizardkitten without permission: http://www.bloggingformichigan.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=3062
At the same time he was bragging about how he supports intellectual property rights, John McCain used the John Hall song “Still the One” and Jackson Browne’s “Running on Empty” without permission.
And the list goes on and on. Evidently Republicans seem to think that intellectual property theft IOKIYAR (is OK if you’re a Republican).
But back to Fagan. One of his photos is hotlinked from the Anchorage Daily News. I wonder of the ADN knows that Fagan is linking to a photo on their website. And I wonder of any of the others do also. Perhaps we should all start notifying anyone whose photos and bandwith Fagan is stealing. And Fagan’s web host.
oops.
Bwa ha ha….heh heh…snicker. Couldn’t have happened to a better person.
I’m running back to the kitchen for more popcorn and a Fat Tire- now I’m ready for a live audio presentation of the Burke-Fagan face-off.
You can’t make this stuff up.
Good Riddance. I was banned from Fagan’s website months ago for merely pointing out some spelling errors in one of his articles.
I had been threatened by one of his regular contributors for my liberal views, and called many names, and that was ok.
I have come so close to dropping my ADN subscription because they waste space with Fagan’s narrow view of the world. I do make a point to avoid all of his sponsors, and I tell them so when the opportunity knocks.
He seems to fancy himself as a junior version of Rush right down to the golden mic.
It’s back up…just got to the main page…
gryph at 26… popcorn balls, old fashioned, molasses… you should try them.
goes great with imploding conservatards.