The difference is that in the Yale case, the creators of the data want it to be consumed.
Whereas UER was making a copy of and serving content against its authors' wishes.
Whereas UER was making a copy of and serving content against its authors' wishes.
What about highly upvoted/downvoted comments that are then edited to reverse or change the sentiment. Other conversation participants have no right to see the original context?
To be fair there are good reasons to have some deleted comments and this is probably not the right place for a debate, but it is not that cut and dry.
As an aside, I've found the whole unedditreddit ride extremely interesting I hope its not the worst thing you had to deal with.
http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/1ukgpm/the_moderator...
This is why it pays to quote context in Internet discussions.
As a side note, it would be really useful if there was some way of quoting context that didn't trivially lend itself to forging context... (though admittedly that's a much smaller problem).
You have bigger fish to fry.