From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T07:10:14+09:00
Subject: Re: OFF: Could somebody tell me how to interpet this?!

Obviously from OP's reaction, his stuff wasn't up for grabs.


Aur

On 3/28/07, David Vallner <david@vallner.net> wrote:
> SonOfLilit wrote:
> > It seems like webdotdev scrapes blogs and republishes.
> >
> > [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.
> >
>
> 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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