Found in New World Disorder: Google restores Xenu Links.

bfrost, your xeroxing the works of Cory straw man seems like a bizarre non sequitur. Note that you posit starting out with Cory's copyrighted material, modifying it and distributing it. That's not what these gamers did (caveat: my knowledge of this example only comes from the discussion here). If they'd bought a copy of a commercial server, and distributed it, modified or not, that would be piracy and illegal. What they did was build something from the ground up that worked with their clients the same way... something that had the same effect.

If you wanted to write from scratch a story that had the same _effect_ on a reader as one of Cory's, that would be perfectly legitimate. If there were an idea that that was wrong, there wouldn't be new stories.

Cory, you corrected someone below about "if you don't defend your copyright, you lose it." I thought that was the case -- that it's the copyright holder's responsibility to tell violators to cease and desist, and that if they're lax in that responsibility, they ran the risk, upon ever actually trying to stop someone's use, of being told: "sorry, it's public domain now." You're saying this is false?