Re: Copyright infringement on www.rossbeazley.co.uk — Overreacting?
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
<jonathan@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Gunnar Wolf wrote:
>> Now... I am surprised this is seen so harshly. This is not the first
>> site I see that syndicates Planet Debian. What I can understand is
>
> There's a big difference between aggregating posts and claiming that
> their yours. The heading of the site says that the site is the blog, and
> the posts link back to entries on the site (not the original author
> sites). It gives the (wrong) impression that the entries were
> specifically written for the site. If you scroll down all the way there
> are Google ads at the bottom. He's clearly abusing the planet's content
> for his own gain.
Perhaps we can solve this from the Planet Debian side by adding a link
to the original article in the bottom of either the posts or the RSS
feeds (wherever that web site is pulling the articles from). We could
also consider determining and blocking the IPs the person is pulling
from, though that will generally just lead to a cat-and-mouse type
situation
>
> -Jonathan
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