War of Blogs

Tim Lambert created some sort of blog redirection from his site to Tim Blair's blog. The only difference is that the redirection strips all of the original comments features to replace them with TimL's own comments system.

Now why would anyone want to do that?

Because TimL believes that blog administrators should not censor comments they (the administrators) disagree with even though earlier he said:

I must say that I think it makes for a rather uninteresting comment section if dissenting opinions are not allowed, but to each his own. Dear readers, you are welcome to use my comments to argue with me and each other. (But no insulting people, please.)

and later made the stronger stand that not allowing them is hypocritical.

I'm definitely not a legal expert but as far as I understand the law, creating a copy (even if it is only a "virtual copy") and modifying any part of it sounds illegal, especially under Australia's bizarre copyright laws. Even if it is legal it sounds unethical to me although I'm also not an ethicist. Doing what TimL did without making a disclaimer that this is not the original site and what has changed sounds definitely unethical.

As I said before, TimL is my PhD supervisor and I hold him in very high regard. This time I think he went a bit too far (although in an original way) trying to make a point.