thread locking - is there a process to contest decision or not

bubblesmoney

regarding http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=22464611#post22464611

how can googling an article and clicking the article to read the article be illegal. the same article if accessed directly on a magazine website is only for paying customers but beacuse the magazine is interested in google or diggit referrals they allow free access for them, so anyone googling the same article can get it for free. how can anyone term this illegal. isnt this a money saving website, isnt what i posted a money saving and legal method, isnt what i posted about how to read economy related websites for free.

i understand some may misconstrue it as potentially illegal, but web browsers such as firefox will have taken legal opinion before allowing such redirects and their legal team would have cleared it for sure.

i cant agree with the decision, although i do respect the motive behind locking the thread. is there a method where we can appeal such locking of threads or do we have no say over the matter. have a nice day. i am pretty careful not to do illegal things and wouldnt have posted this if i thought this was illegal.

i understand subscriptions are a revenue stream but getting google redirects are a revenue stream as well that is why they allow free google and diggit access and i was just popularising that method of accessing subscription articles for free.

if that method is illegal then the voucher codes section on mse should be illegal as well as it is essentially the same.

Browntoa

looking at the thread it says in the last post

Thread locked pending decisions by MSE abuse team

if the abuse team think its ok then they will unlock ???? so there is an inbuilt "appeal" ?

bubblesmoney

one more method i forgot to mention in the original thread is as below.

if one goes to google news website and searches for the name of the subscription article there then you will get free access to that article if you click on the google news link. now dont tell me this method is illegal as well.

i am just mentioning free and LEGAL ways of accessing subscription articles of finance and economy, just what this board is meant to be discussing. why would someone want to pay 75$ a year when the same is available free via google and diggit etc. certainly nothing illegal about pointing out free and legal ways of money saving.

once that thread is unlocked, can someone please merge this and the other thread. have a nice day. i will go elsewhere for a day as have had enough of mse today. take pains to make an useful post and it gets locked saying illegal. might as well waste my time elsewhere than get irritated here. certainly not going to the DT or arms sections though.

tomterm8

To clarify this, google provides a well known option to web site developers to prevent it caching particular pages on a site. It is therefore not really problematic to use the functionality.

PasturesNew

If you have content to protect you simply write a robots.txt file ... anybody who has an interest in producing subscription or paid-for content will know this before they even create the space and populate it. Fact.

And/or you can simply create a directory that is password protected and nobody else can get to it.

If you can get it ... they meant you to. Fact. (or really don't care)

If you can't, they don't want you to.

Solved.

Fact.

bubblesmoney

can i get some feedback from the abuse team please whether the thread that was locked for 'supposedly' being illegal is still considered illegal by the abuse team and if it is not considered illegal can it be unlocked please.

the thread in question is this http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=22464611#post22464611

apologies for the hassles. have a nice day.