A cautionary tale

This is a story of how you ruin a business with your own stupidity and rudeness. The story starts like many others stories of people who've mistaken the fact that internet is a domain that is public with the term public domain but goes much, much more faily the further you go. The whole thing started when a woman discovered her webpublished article was printed in a magazine without her consent. She then wrote to the magazine's editor to ask for apology and a donation to. The response she got is hard to believe in. Just reading this part one wants to headdesk:
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But honestly Monica, the web is considered "public domain" and you should be happy we just didn't "lift" your whole article and put someone else's name on it! It happens a lot, clearly more than you are aware of, especially on college campuses, and the workplace. If you took offence and are unhappy, I am sorry, but you as a professional should know that the article we used written by you was in very bad need of editing, and is much better now than was originally. Now it will work well for your portfolio. For that reason, I have a bit of a difficult time with your requests for monetary gain, albeit for such a fine (and very wealthy!) institution. We put some time into rewrites, you should compensate me! I never charge young writers for advice or rewriting poorly written pieces, and have many who write for me... ALWAYS for free!"
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What made it even more ridiculous was the disclaimer that came with that email:
This electronic message may contain information privileged for the addressee only.
Please be advised that the Cooks Source email addressee is not intended to be transferred to any other addressor, and any copying, distribution or use of the contents of this message is prohibited.

This is so incredulous that one almost can't believe anyone can be so ignorant.  And so incredibly blatant about it. So Monica Gaudio did the obvious thing - she let other people know. The next part was pretty predictable - it went all over the internet like fire with But honestly Monica becoming instant meme. The hordes descended both on the magazine on the web including posting links to other articles that were copied and in real life where it led to advertisers pulling ads out of the magazine. I suppose this is the end of it as between that and possible lawsuits I don't think it can survive.

What that editor Judith Griggs did was both incredibly stupid and mean but I can't help feeling sorry for someone who had hole internets dropped on her head. Maybe it's just because I can't stop thinking what if it happened to someone not guilty. And I suppose I just feel sorry for all the people who will lose their jobs because her stupidity.

Still I think this should be turned into a tale of what not to do and how not to behave for everyone on the internet.