Media

I’ve opened a message board called The Open Trench which you can find here.

Not only can you discuss things related to craigscrimelist but all my other crime blogs, and off topic subjects as well.

I hope to see you there.

The Craigslist Rapist : Guest Blog by Trench Reynolds:

This is a piece I did for the Investigation Discovery blog The Criminal Report Daily that’s run by David Lohr. It focuses on the craigslist rapist Mark Antonio Humphries.

Craigslist Crimes and Misdemeanors:

This is a photo slideshow from the late Court TV about some of the crimes that happened through craigslist.

Some you may be familiar with, others you may not.

Thanks to Darnell for the link.

Craigslist or Crimeslist?:
I have to thank Jim Redden of the Portland Tribune for featuring this humble site in his article about craigslist crime in the Portland, Oregon area. It’s a great article and brings up some great points that I’ll discuss later. But now it’s late and for now I just want to brag a little.

So yesterday morning I wake up to an e-mail about a post I did at MyCrimeSpace a while ago…

This is to inform you that I believe your site is in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, by quoting the majority of our copyrighted article on your site.

The page I am referring to is at: www.mycrimespace.com/tag/jeffrey-scott-bagnall

It contains six paragraphs lifted directly from our story, which was nine paragraphs in length. This goes beyond Fair Use.

Our original article is at: www.thedenverchannel.com/news/11191323/detail.html?subid=22100484&qs=1;bp=t which clearly has a copyright notice at the bottom.

I believe the information above is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I state that I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.

Wayne Harrison
Senior News Editor
TheDenverChannel.com

The story was about an alleged Boulder, Colorado craigslist pimp who was also in possession of child porn by the name of Jeffrey Scott Bagnall.

Now I did all the polite things. I linked to the original article. I blockquoted all the quotes that I thought were germane to the point I was making. Added some content that was definitely my own. I never claimed ownership of the material. But no, some pencil pusher has to DMCA me. I removed the post from MCS only because I didn’t want to drag b5media into it. I even thought about reposting the article in full here but I decided that I’ll be the slightly bigger man.

What this tool doesn’t realize is that blogs and online media have a symbiotic relationship. Media provides bloggers with the news while bloggers provide more readers to the media websites by linking back to them. It seems that some standard media outlets still don’t get it.

I know one thing that isn’t covered under the DMCA. I can say Wayne Harrison is a tool all I want. That and the “Denver Channel” sucks ass. DMCA that, assclown.

Craigslist seems to be getting a lot criminal activity: from marijuana sales to prostitution:
It seems that I’m not the only one who has been noticing the criminal activity on craigslist. This post from Product Reviews recaps some recent stories, like the New Jersey pot dealer, but what I loved about this post was this quote…

Susan MacTavish a Craigslist spokeswoman still maintains that any illegal activity is still banned from the site, but it seems as if users of the site do not care about the ban.

Obviously but I think that Ms. MacTavish and Mr. Buckmaster don’t really care about the ban either.