SciFi Fans need to beware of new online copyright cop

If you have been an online science fiction fan for more than a year the chances are pretty good you have either seen a news story reposted to an SF fan site or you may have reposted a story yourself. Until now science fiction fans have believed there are so many infringers in the SF fandom community that they are relatively safe from being sued.

Heather Downing on Middle-earth Talk Radio

Hawke Robinson has now uploaded the fully edited version of the July 18 interview with Heather Downing (Elvish singer Rehtaeh) to the Middle-earth Talk Radio Website. You can listen to Heather's interview in Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 28. I recommend downloading the MP3 file but you can try streaming it online.

Listen to live Middle-earth Talk Radio on July 18 with Rehtaeh

Hawke Robinson just sent out this announcement and I am passing it on. Please feel free to share this with other Tolkien fans.

Forum admins and bloggers: You need to delete user accounts linking to Backlinksforum.com

Backlinksforum.com is an extremely disreputable Website that encourages Web spammers to use unethical "link building" methods to create links to their Websites. These unethical methods include creating fake user accounts on blogs and forums and dropping links to low-quality and/or malicious Websites in member profiles.

Middle-earth Talk Radio Episode 26

Due to a recent illness I have not been posting much online for the past several weeks. On June 8 Hawke Robinson and I recorded Episode 26 of Middle-earth Talk Radio, which has actually been available for download for several weeks. I'm only just getting around to announcing it now.