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:[[User:Labster|Vorticity]] runs a crawler to get all of the content of the TV Tropes wiki in source form.<ref>[http://www.accessdenied-rms.net/forums/showthread.php?tid=976&pid=23932#pid23932 I Think It's Time I Walked Quietly Away from TVTropes (Drunkard's Walk Discussion Board thread)]</ref> This went completely unnoticed at the time as the crawler was designed to retrieve pages not much faster than a human user. When the existence of the wiki copy became publicly known, though, the administration of TV Tropes described the use of the crawler as a DDOS attack even though no one reported any problems connecting to wiki while it was running.
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:TVT abruptly and without warning changes its licensing from the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.<ref>This is probably illegal as such a license change requires the approval of ''all'' contributors -- including those who are banned or otherwise ''persona non grata'' -- ahead of time, something the TVT staff did ''not'' get. At the very least it leaves TVT's copyright status in a legally dubious state.</ref>
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