kasia in a nutshell

As spotted by one of our mods.. this spywareinfo.com article uses materials taken from dslreports forums without acknowledgment or for that matter, permission.

Now, we all know that pretty much anything posted on a public forum becomes de facto public domain.. however, if you're going to stick a copyright notice on something you've taken from elsewhere.. please make sure you credit the original authors.. Asking permission might be nice too!

Their copyright notice:

This article is located at http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/direcway/. © 2001-2003 Mike Healan. If copied in its entirety to message boards, blogs, and newsgroups, this notice must be included with it. Please see our terms of use for more information.

Original materials posted here and here.

Well, Mike Healan, you can't copyright something that doesn't belong you. I'm sure you're just learning about this whole web-publishing dealy.. but how about acknowledging those users whose screenshots you used? Hmm?