What happened with stereo80s?

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koleloi

koleloi

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I saw them start selling their collections a moth or two ago. Just now I enter the site but it is gone! Wondering what happened?
 
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eli

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Glad you asked, I was wondering the same thing---all that would come up
was a not in service notice....?
 
Terry

Terry

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I had a feeling something was up with stereo80s a little while ago, so I downloaded the whole site and popped it on a flash drive.

I felt it would be a shame to let it disappear, a pretty good resource for boombox collectors, so last night I registered a domain and uploaded it to:

www.stereoeighties.com

The website is exactly how it appeared in July 2014.
 
Superduper

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Be careful Terry. The site is copyrighted and the fella is selling the site ($100,000 - $25k for the radios, which is the value he assigned to it, meaning the site itself he values at $75k), which includes the intellectual property. He might have intended it to go dark. The site was copied in it's entirety and if it in some way affects negotiations or adversely affects the sale in any way (like maybe he can't sell it and blames you), you could face some liability issues.
 
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jimmyjimmy19702010

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Superduper said:
Be careful Terry. The site is copyrighted and the fella is selling the site ($100,000 - $25k for the radios, which is the value he assigned to it, meaning the site itself he values at $75k), which includes the intellectual property. He might have intended it to go dark. The site was copied in it's entirety and if it in some way affects negotiations or adversely affects the sale in any way (like maybe he can't sell it and blames you), you could face some liability issues.
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Hmmmm...... Good point - be careful dude.

James... :-)
 
Reli

Reli

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Terry said:
I had a feeling something was up with stereo80s a little while ago, so I downloaded the whole site and popped it on a flash drive.

I felt it would be a shame to let it disappear, a pretty good resource for boombox collectors, so last night I registered a domain and uploaded it to:

www.stereoeighties.com

The website is exactly how it appeared in July 2014.
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Yeah I'm not sure that's a good idea, dude. :hmmm:
Although you're in Australia, so maybe it doesn't matter. :lol:
 
Terry

Terry

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Pretty much every picture on that site has been ripped from ebay, many still have the ebay watermark on them. So claiming copyright is a bit rich.

If he wants me to take it down he would issue a DCMA notice first. If I comply with that It's all good.

:-)
 
Terry

Terry

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redbenjoe said:
if you get busted --
say you got it all from gluecifer
:-)
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nah, I got it from some old bloke, lives on the beach in Florida somewhere.

He told me it was legit when I bought it, but he gave me a wooden nickel in my change.
 
Superduper

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Terry said:
Pretty much every picture on that site has been ripped from ebay, many still have the ebay watermark on them. So claiming copyright is a bit rich.
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Yes, I did hear that many of his photos are taken from someplace else and I don't think the owner would have much of a copyright case regarding those images that aren't his. I'm speaking more to the idea, the layout, the text. the descriptions. All of it together is "the website" and regardless that he ripped the images from someplace, a ton of work went into building that site (just checkout your folders and see how many pages and files and folders, and images, etc. there are). That is the concern since the owner's "work" was just downloaded and cloned, complete in it's entirety. That would be like someone saying it would be cool to have their own news site and cloned Foxnews.com or somebody thinking that being the webmaster of a social media site would be a good way to lift their status therefore, cloning facebook and calling it facebooks.com or something like that. Downloading the site.... meh. Downloading, cloning and publishing the site while the original is actively trying to procure a sale... I don't got the ballz to do that, :lol:
 
Reli

Reli

Boomus Fidelis
I notice that Ebay is now adding an automatic copyright onto each pic I upload. But that's not going to stop anyone from just cropping that pic a bit smaller and saying it's a new pic now.

That "classicboombox" site has ripped off several of my Ebay pics and just changed the background on them.
 
Terry

Terry

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The owner has revived stereo80s.com, and asked me to take my mirrored version down, which I've done.

Great to see www.stereo80s.com back to life!
 
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