On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 CultTVman@aloserisp.com wrote:

> I would appreciate it if you removed my Sherman Oaks episode guide from your 
> website.   You are violating my copyrights.   Would you like me to contact 
> your ISP?
> Steve
> Visit the Unofficial Sherman Oaks page at http://iamanasshole.com/shermanoaks

Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 00:41:45 -0500 (EST)
From: __Clint__ 
To: CultTVman

God you sound like a prick.

How is my having that "page" any different from the one google.com has at 

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:YAnj-g57siI:www.culttvman.com/shermanoaks/soepg.html+culttvman+sherman+oaks+episode+guide&hl=en??

Are you going to contact their ISP and ask them to remove it too?

BTW, my webpage is not even hosted ON my ISP. 
But i'll remove the page for the f***ing crybaby.

I guess you don't remember our earlier mailings either, prick. Figures.
At least I've encoded my sherman oaks episodes into AVI so they can be
preserved in my personal collection.  All you've done is make a sh**ty
website then try to go after plot summaries as if you were the godd*mn
producer of the show.  What a prick.

He coulda asked nicely. I checked the access logs, and since March 26, the page was only hit once, probably by him. It was in a personal file bin that for the most part is not linked to from anywhere. Nothing to cry to mommy about. I'm actually quite surprised it turned up in google when I checked. I mean honestly. If I wrote a plot summary of a TV show, do I own the copyright on the summary of the story? Could I make a living writing summaries of television shows without ever actually writing a good story myself? Is this how Cliff notes work, or do they have to pay a royalty? I don't know, and I don't care to fight it, and I may be dead wrong anyway. So I've removed my mirror of CultTVMan's episode guide. If I'd known I had needed to ask permission, I would have. The one on his site is much better and up to date anyway, but I'm not linking to it from here (anymore).

Follow-Up: He gave me a pretty humane reply, considering how nasty I was to him. :)