copyrights & splogs

  • citybirder

    (@citybirder)


    18 years, 11 months ago

    I hate to sound like I’m whinning, but I need advice for an annoying issue. Like most of you, I’m just a person trying to get by, so it really irks me to find a WordPress site ripping off my blog…they could at least give me credit for the writing! I suspect that the person’s blog is merely just scraping material and attributing it to themself. I could be wrong, but wouldn’t that be a violation of the TOS?

    Any sympathetic advice? Please don’t bother with responses like “suck it up” or “stop crying”.

    TIA

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  • moshu

    (@moshu)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    I don’t think there is any kind of TOS when you downloaded a a free program and are using it on your own.
    By searching you could find similar topics – the final conclusion always is: report at the site’s host, use some tricks (plugins) that would display a message on their splog about infringing copyright etc.

    Complaining here doesn’t really help. By analogy think of this: if I write a defamatory letter about you using MS Word and print it out with my HP printer – would you complain at Microsoft or HP? Or would you be after me? 🙂
    [replace MS or HP with WP]

    Thread Starter citybirder

    (@citybirder)

    18 years, 11 months ago

    Not really complaining so much as looking for advice. After I posted, a search of the forums turned up some interesting solutions.

    Thanks for responding.

    bamapachyderm

    (@bamapachyderm)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Try the wp-ban plugin; that way you can just ban the scrapers’ IPs without having to mess with the .htaccess file.

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