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Important Announcement

May 16th, 2016

Awake Goy

gone-fishing

Due to a number of reasons, this site will no longer be updated. There are three main reasons for this: Continuous rampant cut and paste copying of our articles onto other sites; the resultant demoralization of our writers after their hours of work is just stolen, and the lack of response to fundraising efforts.

1. Continuous rampant cut and paste copying of our articles onto other sites.

While it is accepted that the Internet is a place of free exchange of ideas and thoughts, the continuous “cut and paste” copying of our original articles has breached all ethical considerations.

It is the norm, when wishing to reproduce an article, to only have a paragraph of the article, and then a back link to the original. This is being blatantly ignored, and then other sites are asking for money for cut-and-pasting the New Observer’s articles.

2. Our articles are all original works and the product of much research, some of which have taken our writers many hours to compile. To have these hours of work just cut-and-pasted has made our writers ask “what is the point” if someone else is just going to steal the work.

3. Despite appeals, we have been unable to pay our writers for their hours of work, and therefore funding has become a critical issue.

Some readers have suggested erecting a Paywall and charging to read the site. However, given that the cut-and-paste copiers have already bypassed anti-copy software on the website, we are sure that installing a Paywall will not stop the content copying. This will in turn only anger those who might have paid to view the content.