Talk:RFinder
Allegations of copyright violation
[edit]I've removed this section from the article:
- RFinder entered into contracts with American ARRL[1], Canadian RAC[2], British RSGB[3][4], and Lithuania LRMD[5] amateur radio associations for exclusive access rights to their respective repeater directories, cataloged by unpaid volunteer contributors and frequency coordinators, for undisclosed sums of money so that RFinder can turn around and charge hams a nominal $9.99 per year subscription fee for a directory that used to be free.
- RFinder attempted to purchase RepeaterBook in 2013 but was turned down, so RFinder chose to page-scrape RepeaterBook's entire free-but-copyright database and merged it into their own commercial product, and continues to do so today.[6][7] RepeaterBook has been providing a free repeater directory for hams since 2006.
- ^ http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-announces-partnership-with-rfinder-the-worldwide-repeater-directory
- ^ http://www.eham.net/articles/31839
- ^ http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2014/september/radio_society_of_great_britain_partners_up_with_rfinder.htm
- ^ http://wp.rac.ca/radio-society-of-great-britain-partners-up-with-rfinder/
- ^ http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2016/june/lrmd-partners-with-rfinder.htm
- ^ https://www.repeaterbook.com/index.php/2016-04-07-21-08-49/9-blog/18-imitation-is-the-sincerist-form-of-flattery
- ^ https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?threads/rfinder-caught-scraping-data.523994/
This section makes some unreferenced claims, is non-neutral in tone, and relies on a forum post as a reference. If better references can be found to support the claims, feel free to add it back. —danhash (talk) 19:27, 27 March 2019 (UTC)