From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-03-28T22:30:11+09:00
Subject: Re: OFF: Could somebody tell me how to interpet this?!

It seems like webdotdev scrapes blogs and republishes.

It also seem like they got the correlation between blog and blogger mixed up.

Notice the links to the original under every article.


What they're doing is wrong twice: once for publishing copyrighted
stuff without permission and once again for mixing up the code that
puts a name and a picture on the top.

I took a random article from the main page,
http://www.webdotdev.com/nvd/client-side/css/internet-explorer-and-the-css-box-model.html
.

The link for "read more" point to a Roger Johansson's blog.


So it seems like it's mixed up code, not someone manually copying
/your/ material (they still automatically copy everyone's material,
which is wrong).

My point being that Satish Talim probably shouldn't be blamed (he's a
nice guy, too, and left a comment on the post that's referring to him
as author - the original on your own site, I mean). The site should.



Aur

On 3/28/07, Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Peter Szinek wrote:
>
> > At the top of the webdotdev.com pages, there is a photo of the
> > 'author' with an 'About the Author' link. Hint: it's neither my
> > photo, nor is it about me. It also states: "Written by Phil
> > Harrison". resp "Written by Satish Talim".
> >
> > I hope this is just some kind of a joke, or an early attempt to play
> > April fools or something. Of course I am happy if someone picks up
> > my articles, but not that happy if he states he wrote them...
> >
> > Could please someone (e.g. Satish, if you are reading this) explain
> > this to me? Maybe I just misunderstood something and this is some
> > cool new web4.0 trend which everybody knows except me - if it's so,
> > please tell me about it, I'd be eager to hear your opinion on this
> > matter.
>
> It's not a cool new trend -- people have been plagiarizing other
> peoples' writing for a long time.
>
> I would like to believe that it's just a mistake, but it's much more
> likely IMO that it is exactly what it appears to be -- someone has
> set up a site to "republish" articles under the site's banner, in
> violation of your copyright. Don't know what, if any, legal recourse
> you have.
>
>