Quoted from dsuperbee:

Funny that everyone is up in arms about this guy stealing content for his own personal gain, but don't give two shits if someone or a company does the same thing making unlicensed parts/art/etc...

Quoted from Frax:

Pretty sure we aren't charging you or asking for donations to view our avatars. Also, is there a market for avatar sales to pinball forums?

Quoted from CrazyLevi:

The owners of the IP of any and all avatars on Pinside are welcome to take the necessary legal action to get people to stop, but so far they either haven't noticed or it doesn't seem to be much of a priority.

Quoted from Frax:

Which you so clearly care about given your own avatar.

Quoted from o-din:

Sure beat trying to watch scrambled porn.

Quoted from vdojaq:

You forgot programming your own cards for satellite tv!

Quoted from Brijam:

Well legally, with respect to an avatar on a forum, copyright law in the USA has a provision called Fair Use that certain kinds of people, especially copyright enforcement attorneys, don't want us to know about

Quoted from ForceFlow:

Looks like he set up a donation paywall.

Quoted from Reality_Studio:

All the digital content I create is stolen by the tens of millions daily world wide and there is nothing I can do about it. DMCA notices are a joke because normally thieves just use webservers hosted in countries that just ignore them.

Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:

Vid, I've even seen all kinds of posts in your threads about making decals, etc. to restore pins. Logic would tell me that it's okay to do this and to even share them with others who don't have the ability to make their own. However, others holding the copyright on these materials may disagree. Not saying that you have ever done or promoted anything unlawful, but to the novice/uneducated these areas can be very gray and confusing, if it even registers to think about it at all.

Quoted from Mr_Tantrum:

So if I put a decal that I design and produce that resembles the original on a someone else's pin (whether they pay me or not), then it's okay. However, if I give that same decal to them to put on themselves or if I give them the file to print and put on their own machine then that's a problem?

Quoted from xsvtoys:

I'm going through the options to sort out what I want then I'll buy, so he will get at least one new sale courtesy of this thread.

Quoted from xTheBlackKnightx:

Relax Clay, I was there.
I AM NOT YOUR ENEMY.
Understand the difference.
I did not post your guides as my own, EVER.
I did not take credit for your work, EVER.
I am a pinball historian, collector, and restorer, just as you are.
Nearly, but not quite, for as much time as you have been.
I never discounted your work, and supported your efforts.
I will correct the wording so there is no confusion, and admit my wording error based on the age of the system ( MPU AS-2518-17 and Bally AS-2518-35) and the type of damage in my haste of typing.
I should have stated, "The corrosion essentially comes from a chemical reaction between the corrosive components inside the battery and the copper PC board traces. The specific rechargeable NiCad battery corrosion on MPU damages copper traces on the MPU and must be fully removed in order to conduct repairs proper in allow proper servicing for correct solder work which otherwise prevents adhesion of the new solder, not to mention continued expansion of the corrosion to further traces, ICs, and the rest of the board. Failure to fully remove this surrounding corrosion results in grayish dry granular solder hardening which does not provide proper electrical contact and poor quality repairs, ultimately making the board nearly impossible for formal repair."
This did not come out of the repair guide, but out of my head.
Is that better for everyone?
I should not have used "quick pinball jargon", that was my mistake.
They were not alkaline, nor actually "acid".
I don't think we need an entire formal dissertation on actual neutralization and cleanup of corrosion on this thread.
Some of the older collector folks just took time to come around, I remember the resistance when the idea was introduced.
This includes fandangling on the photographs, which is parts of references and contributors, not just the writing, which seemed to be overlooked here.
I not sure why you take things so personally based on contributions often.
You already mentioned Joe Blackwell, which I considered him a direct contributor to your DE work.
If you do not, that is your prerogative, as I don't crosscheck every footnote.
If you want to state that everything was generated or written by you, I am not going to argue.
I am not here to circumvent or argue your biographies or footnotes, or personally attack you.
I supported your work, personally, multiple times for nearly 20 years in this case.
It was a good thing overall for the community, which I shared based on the lack of information that occurred in the early 90s.
If you can successfully get the documents copyrighted, why not publish them formally (meaning in a $#@!ing book) instead of dinking around with this situation that been the case for decades?
At this point since, they were pulled, quite a few years ago I might add, it would make better sense that they way people went around you, copied your entire website and posted in on overseas forums like http://techniek.flipperwinkel.nl.
You might even get a few new contributions for systems not included like AGC and Ted Zale "zipper flipper" systems I specialize on, based differences or uniqueness in designs. It would be a good time for a major update "upgrade". Others might add their repair directories which were left out like Zaccaria with David Gersic, base on a change of opinion. Of course, I cannot speak for others, just myself.