Scraper sells off sites
Ajay got a bit hot under the collar regarding a site that stole his content via an RSS scraper. That site is now for sale, apparently as is.
Stolen Content, Sitepoint and Host turn blind eye!
BTW, I’ve had some questions why I don’t like scraping of my entire articles, and republishing without my permission. Besides the obvious - I want people to come to my site rather than thinking it’s over somewhere else, there’s another reason:
I often update my posts, sometimes even weeks and months after I first wrote them. If new information comes to my attention, or I got something wrong, I will update the post. I don’t like the thought of another site having an entire copy of an outdated post, without my edits on it!
August 28th, 2006 at 12:47 am
Thanks for the post Spamhuntress
August 28th, 2006 at 2:55 am
The site and I guess the account has been suspended
August 29th, 2006 at 12:40 am
Even if you aren’t in the US the US companies have to honor DMCA copyright notices, and failure to comply could make them fair game for a lawsuit.
You can file DMCA notices with all the search engines showing your stolen content and they are pretty much required by law to yank it, potentially locking the site out of the search engine until the content is removed from the offending site.
ISPs tend to take the sites offline ASAP.
Try it some time, a quick document, signature and fax and POOF! they are gone.
I’ve used this to knock a bunch of sites offline, it’s fun
August 29th, 2006 at 5:09 am
I didnt need to do that much. Thankfully, the ISP got it offline with just a simple email.
But, I was planning on sending a DMCA notice to it.