Something.ie are thieving from bloggers.
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See Suzy’s post on Something.ie ripping her off. They also rip off Politics In Ireland and were ripping off Limerick Blogger too and I think they’re stealing content from others too. Making money off the backs of people without respecting their IP is not on.
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March 21st, 2008 at 7:01 pm
They have been doing it for months, I’ve remove3d hundreds of trackbacks from them from limerick blogger .org in the last couple of months.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I subscribed and noticed nothing but news from other Irish News sites so unsubscribed.
March 21st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
An attempt to give an example of a trackback from these guys seems to have been auto-binned by akismet.
Anyway, after receiving about ten or so of these trackback I just added something.ie to the list of blacklisted phrases.
March 21st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
[…] is using content from all over planet Irish Blogging without […]
March 22nd, 2008 at 3:31 am
[…] and Personal Not one to go jumping on the band-wagon here, but a post on mulley.net, and mamanpoulet.com relating to the website something.ie prompted me to write this after having a […]
March 22nd, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Seems this crowd have done the same to one my recent posts:
http://parrotseducation.com/blogs/Back-Pain/1961/the-couch-sessions/
Should I be worried?
March 23rd, 2008 at 1:57 am
It doesn’t seem to be blatant ripping off. They’ve been taking my posts as well, but they only put up the first few lines, and it doesn’t really bother me too much.
If they took the entire post and re-published it, I’d be seriously pissed off, and I have attacked people in the past about such practices, but I wouldn’t consider this to be plagiarism at all.
March 23rd, 2008 at 7:07 am
Nobody is saying it’s plagiarism Bock - it’s using content and attempting to build their site with the content of Irish blogs and my blog in particular for their commerical gain that I have a problem with.
March 23rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Fair enough. I’m not defending them. I’m just saying they haven’t done enough to make me get medieval on their ass (but that might change).
March 24th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
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March 26th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
[…] stealing their content for his aggregator! It’s like some sort of RSS aggregator war. (Also see this post if you are in the […]
March 26th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
What’s acceptable when aggregating RSS feeds?…
A few days ago Damien Mulley and Maman Poulet posted that Something.ie was stealing their content. I didn’t pay much attention at the time but at first glance it seemed like they were complaining about their RSS feed being syndicated. RSS feeds a…
March 29th, 2008 at 3:35 am
[…] acceptable when aggregating RSS feeds?, at aidanf.net. The post tells us of debate that involved Damien Mulley, Maman Poulet and Something.ie about aggregating RSS feeds. By the preceding links all point to […]