Less is better

Trim it dowm. Remove unimportant lines, info.

Change the Headline

Add a link at the bottom to the original site and page.

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Making copies of articles for an internal archive or other non-public-facing repository is probably pretty safe. Not only because you’re unlikely to be discovered, but because it would be much easier to show that you’re not harming the market for the original work.

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I don’t know that the info-spread is strictly on a friend-to-friend basis, though. The vast majority of groups I’ve joined on Facebook, I found through my own interests and careful searching — not via recommendations from pals. That may be atypical of the Facebook experience, I don’t know.

Having a non-citizen as a point of dissemination works in cases like the Gomery Inquiry, where the issue is of interest nationwide and the online medium is a blog. In cases like the murder in Toronto and the animal abuse in Edmonton, where interest is local, and on a site like Facebook, where information is spread via who you have on your “friends” list, it doesn’t work as well.

Seems to me that Canadians creating such a group are probably in violation of the law, but any other nationality doing so would be fair game, as long as the site was not hosted here.

The smart thing to do would be to have a non-citizen be the point of dissemination — like the (US) PowerLine blog publishing details about the (Canadian, publication-blocked) Gomery Inquiry’s Adscam testimony.