<<I think suing would be pretty ineffectual because you've got dozens and dozens of potential plaintiffs.>> Class-actionable baby!!! <<And something tells me that Mr. Beall isn't independently wealthy by any means.>> What is the goal of the class-action suit? To put him out of business? To get him to stop plagiarising the archive? <<Maybe a better solution would be to find a high school team that's never done well at Chip's tournaments and tip them off to the existence of the question archive.>> Only problem is that Chip uses the archive as one of many sources. I am sure that Chip writes 70-80% of his Q's from various sources such as the Cambridge Encyclopaedia (sorry Rob :), and the such. I know I do ;) So at the most Chip gets 5-10% of his Qs from the archive. Also the teams going would need to memorise the entire archive which is also a daunting task. <<A few nasty upset wins might be all that's necessary to stop Chip from plagiarizing the archive.>> see above. <<Why not make the archive free, but password protected? Whoever owns it...I don't know if this would be feasible, but you could say on the front page, "Because of recent issues of plagiarizing for the profit of other entities, we have decided to password-protect the Stanford archive. You can get the password by registering your name and, if applicable, team with whoever...and then when Mr. Beall writes, politely inform him that he's the reason the archive isn't being mage public. I don't know if that'd work at all, but...>> the chipster has either (1) got the q's on his harddrive (i know i did b4 my hard disk crash of 1999) or (2) will get someone to go in by proxy if he wants to badly enough. --shawn
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