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Sadly, you're exactly right. Fact is: the problem is far bigger than you or me either one and until a really big group of bloggers with some big time commercial and government backing gets behind us there's little that can be done.
Thanks for commenting so quickly and for being honest in your answers.
One for the wordpress backroom boys methinks?
WordPress bloggers can add a copyright notice to their RSS feeds ..
Angsuman’s Feed Copyrighter Plugin
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/word...
Block the IP. easy peasy. When their aggregator doesn't work, they'll have to move to something else.
You MUST keep attacking those who steal from you, or your work will be stolen habitually.
Of course, there are some situations that are more difficult to pursue than others, but do not let the Illegitimus carborundum you!
Besides, ask your attorney what the effects of a public pronouncement of disinterest are on your future rights.
(By the way, that old Latin "illegitimus non carborundum est" isn't really Latin and doesn't really say anything, literally means nothing --- but you get my point, right? Keep fighting.)
'sup!
then again, I'm not cool enough to have splogs stealing my content (with the exception of one russian one, once).
Ryan
Be careful, Billy makes rash judgements about context and people and tends to go with the crowd. He may want to latch on to you to promote him.
History, not revision:
Allen posted this on his site, and did not delete replies, unlike Billy who has. Billy wants people to think what he thinks, to control and manipulate the direction. Allen left all comments and his original post intact.
Billy's original post on the matter, in which he calls Jenkins a fake, is excerpted below.
I'm in the process of developing a start-up that does just this. Please understand that I'm not trying to plug here, just trying to gauge a better understanding from the community at large what they would like to see when something is reported back.
When I get a chance, I'll write a MT plugin. Didn't know it was such an issue. It'd be a lot easier if you were running the system off a VPS and could just block any traffic from any IP though.
Robert, you and Shel mentioned my code of blogging ethics on the Red Couch a couple of years ago. One reason I feel I have to "go after" sploggers from time to time is because of, well, ethics. I'm under no illusion that I can help shut more than a few sploggers down, but I think ignoring sploggers signals them that the field is clear.
The real problem, as Amy Gahran points out on her site, is that Google and Yahoo provide an enormous incentive to sploggers, without giving safeguards to bloggers with CC licenses. But surely Google has every incentive to keep its AdSense ads "on the right side of the rules"... I simply cannot believe that those bright people cannot devise a method to do that.
Or is it technologically impossible?
What was that about the mother of invention? Some folks snatching your content may only understand "copy right, copy left, cut, paste." Don't blame Murphy for being "Murphy". Why did torrent come about? Beeeecause it became illegal to copy music using other methods. If they completely copy and paste the content, shame on them. However, Imitation is what?
I am sure you can find hundreds of ambulance chasers to help out. Some people may want to keep a personal library of all your words of witt. Will actions to protect content slam those folks? You hard work and effort and content is great. Just keep raising the bar. Job security is actually job insecurity. Is a soap box racer and indy car? Take it as a complement unless it is taking money out of your pocket.
Where would you be if no one wanted to read or view what you thought was important. Exclusive interview will be given on ABC. CBS copy of ABC. Firebird copies lines of Camero.
Wow they may be making a copy of content to show key influencers. WOW you just blew a 100 million dollar potential contract by blocking the wrong guy/gal. Poetic justice.
just a thought. The views expressed by Nietzche's crazy man are not necessarily those of this station or the writer. lol translated "don't flame me"
Once open source becomes realtime, the big guys will have to spell out and define what they feel is fair use of code etc. For now just be happy you are good enough to copy. People don't copy junk. Zune, iPod. POD? Did I say POD?
Mr. Scoble, Your new show is great. Still needs a way to fast forward the V-Deo's or track view time. just another thought.
One more idea-er. post a small link explaining fair use of content (not written by a lawyer). Eduukate them (KISS 101) 3kindsofpeople
Explain the situation in a short, comprehensive mail to:
abuse(a)google.com, abuse(a)adsense.com, abuse(a)yahoo.com and abuse(a)live.com
Checking takes two clicks, which is less than most usual frauds.
This not should prevent them not from existing, but from being either findable, or earning any ad-money.
If those come up everyweek, look for the text of the first line of your last posts; check it's a splog and send another mail. Blog about it. Repeat until the teams there realize who you are, and how many person you represent.
What they need to do is to add a feature that checks the texts of two feeds are very close. If you have several feeds that you write, you will need a tool to declare declare them as legitimate copies.
IMHO, Ad-Sense would be the more efficient corner.
Tony,
If you can automate that process, or obtain trust from the big ones to check for them and just send them a URL-to-ban list, you are rich.
Track backs are almost dead as there isnt any real type of verification solution. Also,sploggers are not just doing this for fun. There is a lot of money to be made in scraping some else's hard work.
A splogger will use a bot to scrape bits of a blog post or in some cases the whole thing and then use synonyms to make it slightly different.
The algorithm that we have come up with has taken almost 6 months to get right. We can now scan 6.5M blogs in 24 hours and then show results based on several metrics.
The problem is very complex and isnt easily solved by any means.
Google has something to benefit from the sheer number of splogs within Blogger. They can show to an advertiser that they have x number of blogs and charge accordingly. What would happen if that number of blogs could be reduced by X million?
Follow the link and drop me your email and I will be more then happy to have you beta when we are ready.
www.blogwerx.com
Thanks for setting Ginger straight. To all who read this, Allan Jenkins and I had a misunderstanding because I jumped to incorrect conclusions. It was all my fault. Thankfully Allan has forgiven me and I, Allan.
Now, I just need to figure something out for a redirect for when my blog gets digg or slashdot effect and I'll be good to go. :)
Billy Jones works behind the scenes to trash other people; I've seen it in action. His comments to Allen were way out of line, calling him a liar and a fake because Billy jumped to conclusions regarding the context of Allen's remarks. Allen may have forgiven him, but I have not.
He's attributed comments to me that I've never said, twisted and put words in my mouth by innuendo and taken things out of context that I've written, all while wearing a false face and describing himself as a "friend". It went so far that I asked him to take a lie detector test on the matter, one I also agreed to take, to prove some of what I'm saying. He refused to do so, citing a "lack of funds".
I'm not perfect by any means, far from it, but I am not going to be lied about by Billy either behind my back or to my face and/or see others trashed also by him and not speak out about it.
All it does take is a couple of CC'd emails to the right folks to add to a mountain of evidence against the evil doers. I have mine waiting in my draft box as form letters, just fill in the blanks and send. Lending your voice with the rest of us "small" voices does make a difference.
You can go there now to find out more details.
It is a third party date registration service which among other things allow bloggers and podcasters to enter the URL to their feed and every entry the publish will be downloaded and date registered automatically.
With a date registered copyright including Blogs and Podcasts, a blogger can then send a legitimate cease and desist to the sploggers.
If you do not have a copyright registered, by law you are unable to pursue legal action with copyright infringement.
Find out more on how you can protect your original digital creations at http://www.myfreecopyright.com/about_this_site