An admission of guilt
I admit that I have done a few things I have regretted in my past. There are things that I have done to try to get my site ahead before I decided to take a more ethical approach. I admit that I had previously stolen content from a website that is now defunct. A website that went under the name Land of Broken Dreams. For the uninitiated, this was one of North Carolina’s first websites built in 1994 by Kent Annas. However, the site became unavailable in 2004, if my memory serves me correctly. And I thought it would be okay to steal the content from that site. Months later, an administrator at Land of Broken Dreams - Nina - called me on my actions. I immediately took down the infringing content and not a piece of Kent Annas’ intellectual property was ever seen again, until yesterday.
Yesterday, I had decided that I had enough of the harassing instant messages that these people continued to send to me. I had enough of it all and I was growing more sick and tired. So I took a paragraph from Kelani’s personal FAQs and posted them into yesterday’s post. I altered the passage to agree with my beliefs but it was still infringement none the less. And the point of it was to hopefully get them to stop harassing me. It failed however, as they chose to continue their crusade in full force. I figure the only way to get them to stop their harassment is to do the one thing that I haven’t tried yet. Admitting my past.
I apologize to the former LOBD community and it’s members. I apologize to Nina, Kent and Matt. And I apologize to you, my readers. I hope that in time, you will see that my intentions are to create my own, unique, content and to provide you with a view into my life. I hope in time, I will earn back your trust.
Tags: credibility, doing_the_right_thing, ethical_approach, General, infringement, intellectual_property, land_of_broken_dreams