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By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:21:32 +0000

I noticed that. There are a couple of ads for piracy protection though, so those help to give a little more balance I suppose.

By: Ray Ebersole

Ray Ebersole — Sun, 31 May 2009 15:56:28 +0000

I understand the position on an entire post. That is something I look for and have a scraper on a tech topic I wrote many years ago for AOL. I have written to him, the ISP and any person in the WHOIS with no success. Since it’s over 10 years ago and pertains to AOL I’ve given up. Plus I got no help from AOL when I asked for their assistance.

dcr makes a good point that I’ve seen recently with magazines and newspapers taking exception to quoting and linking back. This perplexes me since they do it in the normal course of business for articles they write thinking maybe because they are “real journalist” they are exempt from the rules they want to apply to others.

By: Debi Lander

Debi Lander — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:45:50 +0000

Michael,

Very helpful, but look at the AdSense ads that now appear on your blog. They are promoting scapers.

By: dcr

dcr — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:24:37 +0000

Ditto.

And some magazines and newspapers–who you would think would know better–don’t seem to get it. Some not only don’t want you to quote them but also don’t want you to link to them!

By: DeborahDera

DeborahDera — Sun, 31 May 2009 02:06:57 +0000

Michael – great post and something to keep in mind. I’m about to launch another website and I think this topic may become a bit more relevant..

By: Michael Kwan

Michael Kwan — Sun, 31 May 2009 01:23:19 +0000

For me, quoting a sentence or even a whole paragraph is fine, so long as proper credit is given. You can write on the same topic without a citation, but when there are entire sentences re-published verbatim (and without credit), that’s too far.

The issue for me is when the scraper takes the entire post, publishes it as if it were their original content, and then gives no credit whatsoever.