Originally posted on February 19, 2007 @ 7:45 pm
Editor’s note: Upon requests by MR. Elliott Back and out of a strong sense of propriety, we have edited this post to remove the strong accusations of scraping against Mr. Back. While the automatic RSS-pulling WordPress plugin was a creation of Mr. Back, the scraper sites are, in fact, not his own, but are run by unscrupulous individuals using what is considered an abuse of the aforementioned software. Phrases in brackets are edited.
While checking my moderated comments and Akismet section today, I noticed that [certain scraper sites are] using my content and earning money on [t]his site with Google Ad Sense. I think that’s called theft.
What gets me is on his own site footer in huge letters, it reads “Don’t steal”.
Another funny thing is he’s even copying my legal disclaimer which reads “If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement.”
Be sure to check his various blogs as he might be stealing from you too.
This is not the first time [content scrapers have] done this to me… but I am not going to just sit and watch anymore.
If this guy is doing the same to you, I’d like to hear about it. This crap needs to stop.