It turns out that interpol3 was actually the copyright owner of all that car advice so...I have rescinded the copyright shenanigans and removed all those posts. I hope all you potential car buyers have good memories!

I will be out of the country until Saturday. Hopefully my copyright complaints will have sorted themselves out by the time I return (with the phoneys backing down or the real owner asserting himself). In the meantime, I should have enough to keep you people entertained until I return.

It looks like two people are claiming to be the owner of the "How to Buy a Car" information. If one of them is actually the copyright owner, I will gladly takedown the posts. Most likely, this is one of you a-holes pulling my leg. Here's my email to them.

Ok you two jokers,

After a quick search of the internet, I found the US copyright website regarding online works. So since both of you are claiming copyright ownership of this work (from anonymous web based email addresses no less), one of you needs to provide me with the signed and dated registration documents you sent and received from the Library of Congress. But I found them from tdiclub.com(the original blog no longer exists) so, as far as I can tell, that is the source of the information (so fred owns it). And as such, it seems to fall under factor 4 of fair use: the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. Since there is no market (the original website is no more), there shouldn't be a problem.

As of right now, it looks like Fred is the copyright owner. You two can sort it out between yourselves (and fred) who is the REAL owner.

SLEZE

PS - I will be posting all of these emails online so that everything is transparent
PPS - in fairness to Fred, I will update my posts to reflect from where I derived my work

Happy Easter from the house that is soon to be divorced.