Cyveillance

[Ms Naughty]

I got an email this morning from a company called Cyveillance saying they were acting on behalf of Nintendo. Turns out one of my splogs had a post that used the word Wii in it, thanks to a sponsor RSS feed.

I've since deleted the post since I agree that it's not a good idea to have that word on an adult website. But they want me to email them and say I've done it.

I'm tempted to tell them to fuck off after reading about their relatively dodgy spider practices.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyveillance
http://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/108
http://johannburkard.de/blog/www/spa...-picscout.html

Has anyone else had dealings with this lot? Any thoughts?

Edit: Also found this article:
http://secpriv.com/who-is-cyveillanc...hould-you-care

Enough to make anyone paranoid!

[InfoGuy]

Now that you've posted that TM here, they're going to be sending Greenie C&Ds!

I've been banning Cyveilance and some others for years. Putting aside any potential legal hassles, you should stop letting these leeches waste your bandwidth, by banning them with .htaccess Why should you let Cyveilance and their ilk crawl your sites, so that they can resell your content without compensating you?

#cyveillance
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^63\.148\.99\.(22[4-9]|2[3-5][0-9])$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^65\.118\.41\.(19[2-9]|2[0-1][0-9]|22[0-3])$ ban

#nameprotect
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^12\.40\.85\. ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^12\.148\.196\.(12[8-9]|1[3-9][0-9]|2[0-5][0-9])$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^12\.148\.209\.(19[2-9]|2[0-5][0-9])$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^12\.175\.0\.(3[2-9]|4[0-7])$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^69\.8\.156\.(15[6-9]|1[6-9][0-9]|2[0-5][0-9])$ ban

#mark monitor
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^64\.124\.14\.([0-9]|[1-9][0-9]|1[0-1][0-9]|12[0-7])$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^65\.102\.64\. ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^66\.77\.142\.(9[6-9]|1[0-1][0-9]|12[0-7])$ ban

#mark watch
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^204\.62\.(22[5-7])$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^206\.190\.171\.(17[2-9])$ ban

#turnitin
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^64\.140\.48\.(2[4-7])\. ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^64\.140\.49\.(6[6-9]|70)$ ban
SetEnvIf Remote_Addr ^204\.9\.204\. ban

<Files ~ "^.*$">
order allow,deny
allow from all
deny from env=ban
</Files>

[Ms Naughty]

Good point, I should have put dashes in the word. Too late for me to edit, Greenie will have to do it.

How do they resell content?

And thanks for the htaccess, I'll add it.

[InfoGuy]

They're crawling your pages, collecting your content and reselling it raw/repackaged to their customers. Why should they reap the rewards from your bandwidth without sending you any human traffic or otherwise compensating you?

I'm not a lawyer and this is only my personal opinion, but I think that mentioning a brand on a website isn't trademark infringement and falls under fair use. There are plenty of criticism sites out there that would be shut down if that weren't the case.