Did anyone noticed that the IMDb Message Boards were copied by MovieChat.Org website?

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Did anyone noticed that the IMDb Message Boards were copied by MovieChat.Org website? 

I can firmly tell, that the entire IMDb Message Boards were copied by this site:- 
https://moviechat.org

Here is a living example, wherein my post back 2 years ago, on the IMDb boards, were copied, which I wrote about the great M. Night Shyamalan : https://moviechat.org/nm0796117/M-Night-Shyamalan/58a8c3cb39e8d70675861dde/M-Night-will-win-an-Oscar...

My username is kaustavsinha10, but there is no hyperlink on it! It's a stealing!!! 

I think, the IMDb Staffs should take necessary actions against this website, and delete/ban it, if possible! What do you say? Being a huge lover of the IMDb, I say this! 
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Kaus S, as you might know (or not) IMDb Message Boards were fully deactivated and deleted. It seems that this website took care of trying to archive and preserve what was there with some additional continuation.
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2018-10-05T02:20:16+00:00
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too late to add this to the above

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.imdb.com/boards/

2018-10-05T02:22:48+00:00
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No!!!
2018-10-05T02:23:28+00:00
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We are paying to get some hacker, steal the info! :(
2018-10-05T02:28:07+00:00
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Kaus S, archiving something is not stealing, though. I can totally understand why someone would have wanted to make a copy of message boards before they got demolished. However particular website you brought into discussion, Moviechat.org did it rather shadily, while Wayback Machine is a non-commercial organization that has all the right in the world to what it does: archiving the pages of Internet, before some of them are gone forever. I don't know where to start on how helpful Wayback Machine at preserving some very needed pieces of information. 

And no, it's not some mysterious hacker stealing the info. Almost everything on Internet is a collective effort, at least in cases as big as that. You can't do that on your own. 
2018-10-05T02:33:05+00:00
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I can understand! Did not knew it totally... thanks a-lot for the info! Take care.

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