[ModshackUK]

Actualy the posts remain the property of the site and its owner so if you do decide to merge his database into yours then you are breaking the copyright laws, and I would recomend he takes it to a court to sort out.

I had this a while back and was advised I had grounds to take legal action against the person(s) who did it. the site in question was imediately removed from the server it was hosted on.

The domain name owner provides the site on the understanding that all the content of the site is the property of him regardless of who posted it.

You were just an admin and not holding the position of owning the domain and so if you do this then he can simply contact your domain host and have your site removed for theft of content.

Its the same as me importing my posts from here into my own bulletin board, it just aint going to happen.

BTW you also import his members who may not want to go to your site, this also includes all thier PRIVATE MESSAGES as well as other personal info that they may not wish YOU to have access to. Each of them can activly prosecute you for theft of their intelectual property as the importer imports all the threads and members and does not distinguish them, this means that you have already done the dead before you delete them so the crime has already been commited.

By holding a copy of his database he has grounds enough there to prosecute you for unlawfull theft of his property.

So dont break out the champagne out yet m8

HM