ichadwick
Well-known member
I have to apologize to everyone here for flying off the handle about the content on Uke Can Play. And to its owner, BeatNik, too, for dumping on him over this. I shouldn't have dragged my comments into the public.
I'm kind of sensitive about having content lifted - I've had my entire tequila Website, and much of my other sites taken and copied onto someone else's sites in the past. I've had to go deep into the bowels of the legal system to restore my rights to that material. My whole tequila site, every page, was actually taken and translated into another language, then posted as someone's work. However, the CSS and photos were retained (as well as the comments on the HMTL identifying me as the author, which helped me prove my case!). So I tend to see red where my work is concerned. But that's a poor excuse for behaving badly.
The Mr. Jeykll in me simply over-reacted with an off-with-their-heads manner. I must have seemed quite the git. I feel thoroughly embarassed by my reaction, now.
Sorry, folks, for dragging everyone into this and making it an online scene. Thanks for the posts and emails of support, but I do believe BeatNik when he wrote he wasn't aware of the source. I crapped on him failry heavily and owe him an apology, too. (Usually it takes bad spelling or a missing apostrophe in a post to set me off like that.
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Please accept my apology and don't be angry with Uke Can Play. Like the rest of us, he's just trying to spread the love of ukes around. And I will continue to attempt to do the same in future. Somewhat chastened, but still strumming.
I'm kind of sensitive about having content lifted - I've had my entire tequila Website, and much of my other sites taken and copied onto someone else's sites in the past. I've had to go deep into the bowels of the legal system to restore my rights to that material. My whole tequila site, every page, was actually taken and translated into another language, then posted as someone's work. However, the CSS and photos were retained (as well as the comments on the HMTL identifying me as the author, which helped me prove my case!). So I tend to see red where my work is concerned. But that's a poor excuse for behaving badly.
The Mr. Jeykll in me simply over-reacted with an off-with-their-heads manner. I must have seemed quite the git. I feel thoroughly embarassed by my reaction, now.
Sorry, folks, for dragging everyone into this and making it an online scene. Thanks for the posts and emails of support, but I do believe BeatNik when he wrote he wasn't aware of the source. I crapped on him failry heavily and owe him an apology, too. (Usually it takes bad spelling or a missing apostrophe in a post to set me off like that.
)Please accept my apology and don't be angry with Uke Can Play. Like the rest of us, he's just trying to spread the love of ukes around. And I will continue to attempt to do the same in future. Somewhat chastened, but still strumming.
