Thank you for the clarification. I've humbly been schooled in the nature of opensource copyright law. At any rate, I've started a petition to open up the sour

Thank you for the clarification. I've humbly been schooled in the nature of opensource copyright law. At any rate, I've started a petition to open up the source code and user-generated content to the public domain: https://www.change.org/petitions/msnbc-open-source-the-everyblock-codebase-content https://www.change.org/petitions/msnbc-open-source-the-every... I was on the site nearly every day and poured hours of my life writing community posts, updating information, etc. This may not mean much to people outside of Chicago, but stuff like the epic debate between Eddie Carazana and Jim DeRogatis on the future of the Congress Theater, gone forever? https://www.google.com/search?q=carazana+dirogatis+everyblock&oq=carazana+dirogatis+everyblock&aqs=chrome.0.57.6059&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#hl=en&tbo=d&spell=1&q=carranza+derogatis+everyblock&sa=X&ei=FQUUUYuwEqnpygHun4HYDw&ved=0CCwQBSgA&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=9b8dc8b2d2a28807&biw=1280&bih=1264 https://www.google.com/search?q=carazana+dirogatis+everybloc... It's a part of history. And the fact that a media conglomerate erased it from the web with zero notice is, frankly, troubling.