Someone else is stealing my content
As I was going through my log I found this link. I am confused why people would think that what I write is a) worth stealing, and b) helpful to sell antiques.
I will use the Jason Calacanis process to deal with this one and let you know what happens.
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July 6th, 2005 at 1:01 pm
I just took a quick look at that site. It says “The feeds below come from all over the world wide web…” OK. On your sidebar I notice you have a section called SYNDICATE and it has three feeds: RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, Atom. Well, somebody is now syndicating your site’s content, so why is that surprising?
If you don’t want people to be able to do this, stop publishing those feeds. As you’re using Movable Type, the way to do this is to delete the index pages that generate the rss and atom pages. Poof! problem solved.
Deleting those feeds will also mean that your readers will no longer be able to read your content in an RSS aggregator program, but that’s the price you’ll pay for getting people to stop using the syndication feeds in order to syndicate your content.
July 6th, 2005 at 1:25 pm
I want people to be able to syndicate my site. As a matter of fact, I do no longer read blogs that cannot be added to my rss reader.
But don’t you think there is a difference between syndicating the content for personal use and for commercial use? I guess you could argue that I have no CCL on my site (I will put one right now).
Isn’t the only reason why these people do that to increase the “google juice” for their site? It surely is not relevant content for what they are trying to sell…
And at any rate – I never agreed to help them sell antiques.