I think the real problem here with FOM, and big media as a whole is that they can't find a way to adapt to the internet, plain and simple. The billion dollar franchises that generate the content can't figure out a way to keep the cows inside the fence, so they send out the lawyers to kill anything that gets off the farm instead of letting the consumer get a taste, liking the meat and trying to find the source. No large media outlet is agile enough to keep up with the pace of their own distribution anymore and their "ours or nobodys" attitude generates a sour taste for consumer in my eyes.
Don't think i'm trying to live in some sort of anarchist haven either. Intellectual property is just what it says. Property. But I'm talking about something that noone is making a dime on. Hell, you'd probably have to pay someone or many people hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to filter out all that content and make it available on youtube.
A small website like f1technical.net caters to a more enthusiastic fan base than formula1.com. Sure, their site is flashy and dynamic and all that other crap that they've spent tons of money on, and thats great for the casual viewer. It's pretty (for lack of a better word) and easy to use and I commemorate them for that. But the users here, whether or not I agree with them, are allowed to have a discussion that you are just not going to see on formula1.com, nevermind their minimalistic discussion of the technology. Which this site kicks --- rhinocerous ass with, by the way to whoever is in charge. Thats the reason I go to this site multiple times every day, and formula1.com maybe once or twice a week. (I also reccomend arstechnica.com, a great computer-centric site I visit daily)
Maybe the FIA, FOM, NBC, NFL, BBC and any other three letter abbreviated companies ought to start employing someone with in charge of keeping an ear to whats going on with these types of feeder or secondary websites and what the passionate users are really interested in. Then they wouldn't have these types of problems in the first place because the consumers would probably tell them exactly what they want, alongside developing an internet oriented business model that doesn't mitigate the openness of the web while still being lucrative. I'm sure its tought to do, but these are the types of people who are willing to spend the cash money on the sport, and are probably talking about in their free time generating more interest in the product. Why bite the hand that feeds you?
After all that, now I feel guilty about not donating to this site yet as i've been eavesdropping on it for about 3 years now. I'm a bartender in a tourist town in the North East of the U.S., which of course leaves me pennyless for nine months out of the year. I'll try to make one soon.
Sorry about the novel!
-f
Someone kindly adviced us to write a reply letter to FOM in Ukrainian 
Guess what? They never bothered us since 
