Ammoland.com's featured Gun Blog of the month is The Armed Citizen. Included in the Ammoland.com article is an interview with NRAHuntersRights.org and David Burnett of the Armed Citizen, who recaps the story of the Righthaven lawsuit:
See: Article in full | Visit: The Armed CitizenIt really does boil down to legal extortion. We used to copy stories from the newspapers or TV stations and reprint them, providing full citation and links. Sometimes if a story was long, we had to excerpt it. The newspaper we quoted had the article available freely, and had more than a dozen buttons on the page inviting the reader to share the article. We were hardly making any money on the blog, it was more of an academic exercise. But a lawyer in Nevada decided there was a gold mine in suing mom-and-pop blogs for money. Unfortunately, it wasn’t our battle to fight. There was too much to lose, so we settled. Our fans were awesome with the donations, we didn’t lose a penny in the end. But we still hope Righthaven’s litigious little jihad comes to an end very soon.
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