Ill-legals

The Internet is a cyberworld many consider a lawless, victimless videogame.

While chaos reigns in virtual jungle and sewer, rule of law is doing very well thank you in digital downtown - and its reach grows daily.

Art, film, literature, and websites, are creations of intellect. Hence intellectual property. Legal maneuvering to avoid this simple truth might succeed. You can steal it, even steal it "fair and square" - but it's still mine

A few pointers, if you find this concept difficult:

Honest webmasters, take it and give me credit

 Moral imbeciles, take it and call it your own

 The content of SheepOverboard.com is protected by an esoteric, sophisticated, intrinsic, embedded technology to prevent theft - the Google duplicate content penalty. Steal our stuff and your ratings plummet.

PLAGIARISM

They say to steal from one person is plagiarism, to steal from many is research. They also suggest, usually too late, that using this joke once too often affects website traffic. We, at SheepOverboard feel so strongly about plagiarism we commissioned our legal consultant - a specialist in Internet law - to write a plagiarism FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) for the benefit of our readers.

CONDITIONS OF THEFT:

Material from this website may not be reprinted or retransmitted in whole or in part verbatim. Offending webmasters should realize their own website's rankings (the only way you will ever be seen on the Internet) will plummet to obscurity when duplicate material is detected by search engines.

  ONLY for the purpose of groveling admiration (in a highly-appreciative review in our favor) may sections of our copyrighted, original content be used (full articles must not be duplicated) - with these provisos:

  Your website must refer to sheepoverboard.com as the originator of the material and contain a link to sheepoverboard.com

  Your website and its content must NOT contravene terms of agreement sheepoverboard.com holds with its affiliates and sponsors

  Deep linking to articles, etc., is fine with us. See also our link exchange page.

WARNING: We vigorously protect our copyright interests. Our diminuitive leader has pledged pre-emption and our military are proficient interdictors. Be afraid.

  Use of material requires permission in advance of use - freely given to websites that do not contain material either offensive to sheepoverboard.com's target audience or prohibited by our sponsors and affiliates - as stated above.

Requests, positive comments (we are gentile and easily offended), and even offers to submit articles, should be sent to The Editor (Phil)

Note, that address is obfuscated (a word I dearly wanted to use) to confuse the little email-mining robots pervading the Internet, gathering lists to spam. It should automagically open an email 'dialog' on your computer from whichever email program you are using.

If, however, you are a happy user of Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, or other free mail services, you will probably have to enter our address by hand. Kindly type into the "to:" box our email address: , editor at sheepoverboard dot com - but change the "at" to the symbol @ and the word "dot" to a real dot, as in full stop. Period! Oh yes, and NO SPACES!

Should you master this basic skill you are qualified to use a computer in its most subtle mode. If you feel safe driving a vehicle on the road but become anxious and sweaty at the computer keyboard attempting such rudimentary tasks, seek psychiatric help immediately.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES AND LIABILITY

 This web site contains material that, while copyrighted and owned by the author, may contain representations of material belonging to third parties, including possible copyrights, trademark or service marks.

  In all cases sheepoverboard.com and the author claim no connection, association, arrangements, or agreements with the holders of such third party copyright, trademark, or service marks.

 Exceptions to the preceding: - UNLESS that is the stated intent of such usage, or using such logos, etc., attempting to earn green stuff.

Our intention is for sheepoverboard.com to be an interesting and enjoyable place but cannot guarantee that you will always find everything to your liking. Please read this Disclaimer carefully before using the Site.

FAIR USE . Copyrighted material, whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner, constitutes a "fair use" of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law.

If your own purposes (using any material quoted, reproduced, or "fairly-used" on this website) go beyond "fair use", you must obtain permission directly from the copyright owner

Now really nasty legal stuff, suggesting we really hate our visitors and wouldn't trust them as far as the nearest Ethernet router.

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YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM OR LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM ANY MATERIAL AND/OR DATA DOWNLOADED FROM OR OTHERWISE PROVIDED THROUGH THE SITE.

THIS SITE IS PROVIDED TO YOU *AS IS,* *WITH ALL FAULTS,* AND *AS AVAILABLE.* Sheepoverboard.com AND ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS CANNOT AND DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, CURRENTNESS, NONINFRINGEMENT, MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OF THE INFORMATION AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE. NOR DO THEY GUARANTEE THAT THE SITE WILL BE ERROR-FREE, OR CONTINUOUSLY AVAILABLE, OR THAT THE SITE WILL BE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL sheepoverboard.com OR ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE TO YOU OR ANYONE ELSE FOR ANY DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF USE OF THE SITE, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, OR SIMILAR DAMAGES, EVEN IF WE ARE ADVISED BEFOREHAND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. (BECAUSE SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES, THE LIABILITY OF sheepoverboard.com AND ITS AFFILIATES, AGENTS AND LICENSORS IS LIMITED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY SUCH STATE LAW)