Stolen blog posts + content!

Tommy · 2009-10-16, 05:24 PM

I hate to be on the other side but..
The stolen image argument sounds a little silly

It sounds like its sponsor content and the offending blog owner is promoting the same sponsor.. so how does that give you any unique rights under DMCA

Also if the offending blog is promoting the sponsor. why would the sponsor care. when a sponsor gives out content its for all affiliates

the smarter move would just be send him an email that he will answer and then pull his ip out of the header and add that to an allow/deny htaccess file on your blogs. If he cant see your blogs then he cant steal from them.

And/or you could email his blog trades, ccing the cheater on each email and try to make him look bad
say something like you better look and see how many blog posts he has stolen from you etc etc

ed_banger · 2009-10-17, 01:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tommy

I hate to be on the other side but..
The stolen image argument sounds a little silly

It sounds like its sponsor content and the offending blog owner is promoting the same sponsor.. so how does that give you any unique rights under DMCA

Also if the offending blog is promoting the sponsor. why would the sponsor care. when a sponsor gives out content its for all affiliates

the smarter move would just be send him an email that he will answer and then pull his ip out of the header and add that to an allow/deny htaccess file on your blogs. If he cant see your blogs then he cant steal from them.

And/or you could email his blog trades, ccing the cheater on each email and try to make him look bad
say something like you better look and see how many blog posts he has stolen from you etc etc

He still would have DMCA rights for the text that he wrote.

dunc · 2009-10-17, 04:53 AM

Is he copying your posts... or using your rss feed and changing the ref code in some way?

If hes using your rss feeds... I don't think this is stealing as that is sort of one of the things they are used for... think of all the sites which aggregate rss feeds which are around

You might have a case with him changing the ref code... but rss feeds are there to be shared (aren't they?).

ed_banger · 2009-10-17, 09:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dunc

Is he copying your posts... or using your rss feed and changing the ref code in some way?

If hes using your rss feeds... I don't think this is stealing as that is sort of one of the things they are used for... think of all the sites which aggregate rss feeds which are around

You might have a case with him changing the ref code... but rss feeds are there to be shared (aren't they?).

RSS feeds are there for READERS to subscribe to so they can read and follow blogs they like in a browser/reader of their choice.

With paysites and sponsors providing RSS feeds for splog builders, that is just teaching the splog builders "hey, I can make my own splogs using other peoples RSS feeds!" And with RSS feed plugins to automate blogging, with "find/replace" features, it only makes sense that the sploggers are going to start ripping real bloggers handwritten blogs.

If I make splogs by leeching rss feeds from real bloggers, then there will only be 2 websites with duplicate content, instead of hundreds of sites using the sponsors stale RSS feed.

This is why I turn RSS off on my build and forget blogs.

2009-10-16, 05:24 PM	#1
Tommy NYC Boy That Moved To The Island Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 2,940	I hate to be on the other side but.. The stolen image argument sounds a little silly It sounds like its sponsor content and the offending blog owner is promoting the same sponsor.. so how does that give you any unique rights under DMCA Also if the offending blog is promoting the sponsor. why would the sponsor care. when a sponsor gives out content its for all affiliates the smarter move would just be send him an email that he will answer and then pull his ip out of the header and add that to an allow/deny htaccess file on your blogs. If he cant see your blogs then he cant steal from them. And/or you could email his blog trades, ccing the cheater on each email and try to make him look bad say something like you better look and see how many blog posts he has stolen from you etc etc __________________ Accepting New partners Last edited by Tommy; 2009-10-16 at 05:31 PM..

2009-10-17, 04:53 AM	#3
dunc You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 658	Is he copying your posts... or using your rss feed and changing the ref code in some way? If hes using your rss feeds... I don't think this is stealing as that is sort of one of the things they are used for... think of all the sites which aggregate rss feeds which are around You might have a case with him changing the ref code... but rss feeds are there to be shared (aren't they?).