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At 11:39 PM ,  Yakima said...

Hi MrK,

I very much appreciate your efforts to provide starting points for discussions on subjects of interest and importance to the present and future of Zambia. I followed you here from ZOL, which appears to have lamentably experienced a massive decline in participation recently. I can only hope that the intellectual exchange has merely relocated rather than ceased altogether.

I have also found The Post of Zambia curiously difficult to access, with a proliferation of dead links scattered widely around the web.

In terms of Fair Use and Copyright laws, I have found a few useful rules of thumb. The key with any civil lawsuit is monetary damages, so as long as you are not profiting from the reproduction or distribution of someone else's work, or distributing for free something the author is otherwise profiting from distributing, there is no incentive to file suit against you.

I also appreciate the weblinks you have provided, several of which are new to me, and I'd like to urge you to peruse the data being disseminated by the good people at http://www.ourstolenfuture.org/

If Zambia can avoid the massive long term cost and effects of industrial and agricultural pollutants in the drive toward greater development then future generations will have a better chance of consolidating whatever gains are made in the present.

Thanks!

 

At 2:00 AM ,  Anonymous said...

Yo Mr.K.

This is Jigga man from ZOL and Zambia SOSSA.

I was away visiting Zambia for 4 wks and I’m sorry to report that there hasn’t been any improvement in the social welfare of the majority of our people in the last 5 years that I haven’t been there. I expected a great change but I was thrown aback in disbelief to find the same old story is still there, with the few elite frequenting Manda Hill and Arcades (that I didn’t leave) at the expense of the majority poor. This New Deal govt can’t even patch roads in the suburbs of LSK. I was in the village much of time there and the conditions are even worse.

Now don’t you be scared and cowed by some disgruntled dude who sent you a msg, masquerading to have come from The Post, and threatening you with legal action. I have to admit that though I have criticised you in the past for copying and pasting other people’s articles, I have greatly benefited from your reposting of The Post news articles on your Maravi website. I still think The Post got it wrong for charging people to access their website. Regarding suing you I have read their copyright statement/s and there’s nothing there that could incriminate you. Someone could be sued for anything depending on the wording and interpretation of the copyright statements. They don’t even mention international laws and I take it you don’t live in Zambia and so I think you are protected from prosecution ‘outside’ Zambia. Besides The Post would be sinking so low to open legal proceedings against a harmless and ‘innocent’ person like you Mr.K. I mean what are they going to benefit from it apart from risking their own reputation?
So Mr.K., aka Maravi please continue putting up those articles for us. That dude who threatened you is just a loser from the streets. I have observed you got so scared you even stopped pasting the articles, opting for the Zimbabwean free news instead.

Yep The Post have consumed all their disk space at the host of their websites. That error that comes up: “Can't open file: 'post_articles.MYI'. (errno: 145)” occurs when the website/database has used up all allocated disk space. Additional disk space will normally need to be allocated.

Peace,
Jigga

 

At 12:04 PM ,  Chola Mukanga said...

MrK,

I have difficulties accessing the Post as well.

Glad to see Yakima who has made startling contributions on my blog here.

I look forward to you responding to his comments on the points he raised regarding some of your ideas:

http://zambian-economist.blogspot.com/2007/04/mushroom-powered-development.html

I think the Post's actions just demonstrate the need for us to all come together and offer Zambians an intellectual choice. A think tank of some sort that will take forward intelligent discussion and influence policy development.

This is very much my long term vision.

Jigga

Ba mudala mulishani? Ni Afrochol from Zambia Sossa.
So you finally went to Zed. lol!!
I was there all of December. It was lovely.

 

At 6:19 PM ,  Anonymous said...

I think you need to consider the implications of pasting material from which the post is trying to cash. Just to remind you, right now only lawyers seem to live well here in Zed because they hunt money from this type of thing. Besides ,it not really about winning a case when lawyers target you. It is about how much you lose in keeping them off you. Nevertheless, I personally enjoyed your pastings although I have access to hard copies. By the way, there is a lot from govt medial in terms of feature stories and even current events just in case you believed that the Post is the onlyone that digs. Actually, they publish what is reported to them by and large from disgrantled people. How else would you explain headline stories such as the recent one linking Dr. Miti's story to the first lady. That story came just 2 days after their editorial had bragged how they only publishing that which they too have researched on. (Ref Mwaanga's lies). In short, all I'm saying is that people can ponder/debate issues raized by papers other than the post.

 

At 3:17 PM ,  Anonymous said...

Mr K,
I have from time to time browsed through your blog and must admit that since I have no access to the Post, your pastings were very much appreciated for which I thank you. I don't see how the Post can attack you since you have every right to forward or share their news items without any monetary benefits. At one time their "Post" was free of charge and I think they have just become incensed with greed and envy. The only benefit for you has been the notoriety and who knows one day you will create your own "Space" and make a killing! This spells nothing but jealousy. I have come across other blogs that carry out stories from other websites and no one is threatening them! From my little knowledge I think there's no ground for prosection, then, I could be wrong! Good luck! SLM

 

At 5:45 PM ,  MrK said...

Anon,

I'm not at all worried about being sued. The Post would have to prove that their hardship is considerable, which means that they would have to prove that they lost customers because of this site - in other words, readers who if they did not go to this site, would actually pay for a subscription to the post.

Also, I do not profit from this site in any way. There are no ads, no google links, etc.

You are right though, there is no way for me to verify if or not this individual who calls him or herself 'Post IT Team' (a name they could have gleaned from the Post's website) is actually The Post's staff.

I stopped posting because I may have overdone the posting in the past.

 

At 9:36 PM ,  Anonymous said...

You overdid nothing. Anyhow, leave the so called IT thugs alone.But consider govt media for some thought brovoking arguments in their editorials as well. e.g. todays coment in the times regarding the position taken by oasis forum. And I'm in no way an advocate of or connected to government media. I just hope that people should jugde the sense coming out of some of our compariots working under more difficult conditions. Plus, its good to hear what arguments the regime has in these types of issues.

 

At 10:17 PM ,  Chola Mukanga said...

So the call now is for more balanced coverage?

Perhaps we give the Post too much credit :)

C

 

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