Scraped
Derek Powazek’s article “It’s 2008. I can’t believe we haven’t figured this out.” spoke loudly to me. I’m tired of content scrapers. I’ve had articles stolen, simply because they covered popular subjects I’m still offering full text in my feed, but for Derek, that’s no longer an option. The problem with splogs and spam in general is that as long as there are people stupid enough to click on links on their site on it their emails, they empower their creators more and more.
This has got to stop. Just because someone offers an RSS/Atom feed, doesn’t mean others have the right to repurpose that content any way they see fit. It’s one thing for someone to read a feed through Google Reader or some other feedreader, it’s another to take syndicated feeds, repurpose them and monetize off of content THEY DIDN’T CREATE.
There is a plugin called AntiLeech available for Wordpress that ought to help curb some of the theft from occuring. Maybe it’ll help, but it won’t eliminate the problem.
Tags: antileech, content scraping, content theft, derekpowazek, rss
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I just wanted to say that I’m sorry such a problem speaks so clearly to you. If there is anything that I can do to help, please let mek now. I will gladly assist any way that I can.
Thank you for the offer for help. I will definitely keep it in mind should I encounter any further problems!