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American here - agree that copyright is important and has been trampled in the digital age.. however no one is innocent in this case, rather it appears to be a
by mistrial9 3y ago
American here - agree that copyright is important and has been trampled in the digital age.. however no one is innocent in this case, rather it appears to be a dog pile of commercial interest in public records. Ancestry dot com are crass commercial managers who took advantage of the commercialization of the web
source: the 90s purchase of the rootsweb mailing list assets by Ancestry dot com, their transaction records and subsequent paywall garden with lots of extras