From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T06:57:02+09:00
Subject: Re: OFF: Could somebody tell me how to interpet this?!

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SonOfLilit wrote:
> It seems like webdotdev scrapes blogs and republishes.
>=20
> [snip]
>
> 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.
>=20

I get somewhat reminded of [http://jwz.livejournal.com/126859.html], or
rather the prompts leading to this. (Yes, this is faintly tangential.)

I wonder if they really are scraping (which would indeed be copyright
breach) rather than grabbing what's, well, up for grabs and advertised
as such.

(There's little question that putting someone else's mugshot and name on
even technically cleanly syndicated content is at least stupid, and not
cleanly attributing the true source is at least rude.) [1]

David Vallner

[1] Me being as clueless about the intricacies of internet-age copyright
issues as I am, I'll keep to vague wording.



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