- Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:17 am
#6
This forum has been up for awhile and it looks like no one has even registered.
Yesterday VW was hacked and disabled, but the BBs were working fine. Many of us went there trying to find out and discuss what happened. It might have been better to keep those going if VW wants to convince people not to defect to Igor's new site (which at least does have a more viable looking BB than this).
For our part, we are deeply suspicious of the other site, since it has hijacked a lot of content that people contributed specifically to VW/RC/HC on the understanding that it was copyright protected, and they have relabeled it as their content and posted it illegally. We don't know whether our videos were stolen, but this kind of thing seems very unlike Igor (who has always been ethical in regards to contributor copyright), or maybe it indicates that Igor has gone off his rocker. Of course, we don't know what the internal disputes were that led to this schism -- Igor is entirely unspecific about those on the new site. Also, none of the other supposed "refugees" from among longtime VW folks is piping up over there to explain why this has happened.
Oh, and there is something fishy about converting your RC/HC membership on the other site -- you have to check a box agreeing to "Terms and Conditions" without being able to see what the terms and conditions are. If you are a contributor, you might be agreeing retroactively to the theft of your material.
Just our thoughts on this very confusing situation.
Rug Rollers
Yesterday VW was hacked and disabled, but the BBs were working fine. Many of us went there trying to find out and discuss what happened. It might have been better to keep those going if VW wants to convince people not to defect to Igor's new site (which at least does have a more viable looking BB than this).
For our part, we are deeply suspicious of the other site, since it has hijacked a lot of content that people contributed specifically to VW/RC/HC on the understanding that it was copyright protected, and they have relabeled it as their content and posted it illegally. We don't know whether our videos were stolen, but this kind of thing seems very unlike Igor (who has always been ethical in regards to contributor copyright), or maybe it indicates that Igor has gone off his rocker. Of course, we don't know what the internal disputes were that led to this schism -- Igor is entirely unspecific about those on the new site. Also, none of the other supposed "refugees" from among longtime VW folks is piping up over there to explain why this has happened.
Oh, and there is something fishy about converting your RC/HC membership on the other site -- you have to check a box agreeing to "Terms and Conditions" without being able to see what the terms and conditions are. If you are a contributor, you might be agreeing retroactively to the theft of your material.
Just our thoughts on this very confusing situation.
Rug Rollers
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