ATTENTION: When you write for "Associated Content," "you aren't just giving up the right to earn money from someone else's exploitation of your work, or to object to someone else's use of your work, you're giving up your right to be identified as the author.

"In short, nobody in his right mind and who is capable of reading the fine print should submit their writing to such 'content' websites."

(June 15, 2009) Associated Content Takes Down SOTT Server over "Feminist Perspectives on Natural Childbirth"

As reported on the SOTT blog earlier today, SOTT.net was shut down due to a legal demand by a gang called "Associated Content". It was sent to the Hotmail account of one of the editors on June 20, which obviously we didn't get since SOTT email is received at sott(at)sott.net.

Anyway, this morning we received the following from our server people:

Due to the below email, their is an abuse issue with your server. You have 24hrs to respond on how you will correct this issue before we null route the ip.