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Twitter war between Clay Travis and IT going on

Clay Travis can EABOD and like it. The guy is nothing but an ass clown.

 
Travis never cared about aggy until they were in the SEC. He's not an aggy homer, he's a monster SEC homer.

I've been trying to follow the Ketch stuff in between the Winston story and I just don't see how he thinks this is ok. If I went on and copied and pasted his War Room on this site I guarantee you he'd be emailing me and mcphaul and cancelling my sub over there in a heartbeat.

Obviously it's good publicity for IT to be mentioned in the story, but Travis did not have to copy and paste from a chat. He could have written the story and posted it without using pay site information without any problems at all. We do things like that on this site all the time. There are ways to talk about something without plagiarizing. Everyone who has taken an English class at some time in their life and had to write a simple research paper has done so.

 
Its a dicey area according to my other boss, but I personally think its bs to cut and paste premium content.

As it pertains to Ketchum, he's confident in his product and I believe last night claimed 20,000 subscribers. If true, I dont think a guy who is grossing (again allegedly) over $2 million a year cares what IT things or what happens to them. We arent even a blip on his radar for the most part.

 
Wow even Bobby Burton has joined in basically saying nothing wrong with it being posted as its just news

they are being total hypocrites to act like they wouldnt pissed if was in IT's shoes with their sites. Those guys have been getting their ass kicked by IT for months

 
Why would ketch get mad and get into the convo? Think about it
Orangebloods the leading source all things Texas... Has been way behind the Saban stuff, behind IT and Hornsports. They want to break the Saban news, I'm telling you that's why he is being coy about Saban. I almost guarantee he's been promised the news, as long as he stayed neutral or even downplaying it.
Have not thought of that and it makes total sense.

Wow.

 
For a self-proclaimed lawyer, Clay seems to have forgotten about the Fair Use Doctrine.

And if it was behind a pay-wall, that don't make it news.

 
Wow Ketch is really coming off as an ass in all this with what he's been posting at OB. for a site he claims people dont respect IT sure seems to have him feeling threatened

 
Is this the same Clay Travis that called UT a bunch of cowards a couple of years ago? No thanks. I wouldn't mind sticking my size 12 boot up his a**.

 
1) Even if OB's breaks the official news, it won't matter. IT was way ahead of this story than anyone from the get go and all parties will know that.

2) Travis knows exactly what he did. He's not allowing any comments to that blog post for a reason.

 
I just looked at the IT website to see what they say in their Intellectual Property Statement. I found this paragraph:

APPLICABLE LAW

 

The Inside Texas website and service(s) are created and controlled in the State of Mississippi. As a result, the laws of the State of Mississippi will govern the terms of use without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. The parties agree that a condition of using Inside Texas website and/or service(s) is that any and all claims that arise out of the use of this website and/or service(s) will be tried in a court in the State of Mississippi and Mississippi law will apply. The Mississippi courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction and venue, and you consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts over any claim, suit or proceeding arising out of the use of Inside Texas website and/or service(s) or the terms of use.

Mississippi?! Really?! Not Texas?!

 
I just looked at the IT website to see what they say in their Intellectual Property Statement. I found this paragraph:
APPLICABLE LAW

 

The Inside Texas website and service(s) are created and controlled in the State of Mississippi. As a result, the laws of the State of Mississippi will govern the terms of use without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of laws. The parties agree that a condition of using Inside Texas website and/or service(s) is that any and all claims that arise out of the use of this website and/or service(s) will be tried in a court in the State of Mississippi and Mississippi law will apply. The Mississippi courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction and venue, and you consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts over any claim, suit or proceeding arising out of the use of Inside Texas website and/or service(s) or the terms of use.

Mississippi?! Really?! Not Texas?!
My thoughts exactly. What the hell is up with Mississippi?? Seems strange.

 
Chats are actually a pretty sketchy area, legally speaking. It is technically a two (or more) way conversation done electronically. A game company that I moderated for, several years back, actually tried to sue for copyright infringement / fair use. They ended up losing the case because of the "electronic" communication and leveraged a similar law in Texas for the one party consent. Now the obvious way to get around this is to have an agreement when joining the chat regarding the use of the content in the chat. Not knowing how IT has theirs setup and/or the agreements, I can't really talk to this incident directly and I am not a lawyer so this is just something I have seen. It is just not as cut and dry as it may be seen.

Saying that though, doing what Clay did as a "professional" is very low ball. Not that I had any respect for the guy, doing something like this is BS. I was a bit shocked Ketch jumped into that fire. Pissing matches are never a good thing to get in the middle of.

 
I was a bit shocked Ketch jumped into that fire. Pissing matches are never a good thing to get in the middle of.
Hence my dislike of Ketch. He once did the exact same thing to my little site, stating we copy and pasted his War Room verbatim. Which didn't happen, and he couldn't prove either. I called his bluff.

Pot meet Ketch.

rant over.

 
Mississippi?

Randolph...all of them live in Texas..Im almost certain their servers would be in Texas. Explain this one to me?

 
I am completely shocked that Ketch "outed" Jesus Shuttlesworth. That is so inappropriate. His reasoning was that he thinks it's time he start posting under ____________. Wow. I recently had an issue with Ketch, but to his credit, he was good about making up for it. That, however, is a low blow.

 
Cossell, are you still on the site? If so, I will send the link. I couldn't believe it myself.

He first uses his first name, then goes on to say, "He used his real name on the first comment under the "outkickthevoerage.com" article. Lots of folks on the thread calling him out for doing it.

 
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