7 thoughts on “Leggo my ego”

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   Abflex on October 24, 2007 - Reply

   If you don’t want people to use your content you should disable RSS, not nag the people who use it for syndication and call them thieves. Not that I’m one of those but this small excerpt from http://www.podcastingnews.com/articles/UnderstandingRSSFeeds.html should do the trick of explaining it…

   “RSS files let you create news feeds that can include headlines, links and article summaries from your website content. Because it is a standard format, others can then subscribe to your newsfeed with many popular tools, or incorporate your content into their site.“

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   Kilwag on October 24, 2007 - Reply

   Hmmm totally off topic, but I’ll bite.

   What do you call it when you incorporate content into a site and try to pass it off as your own, without giving any credit? Plagarism? Copyright infringement?

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   nweyesk8 on October 24, 2007 - Reply

   you call it a short day at work

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   Abflex on October 25, 2007 - Reply

   Of course, the source should be obvious, I totally agree on that. But rather than punishing all RSS-subscribers you should take care of the problem by contacting the people showing of your stuff as their own and tell them to get their act together by telling their visitors where they got the information from.

   What you could do, instead of shutting everyone out, is to show only the excerpt from your posts. Most sites that use content syndication only show this part of the posts (or even less perhaps) and linking to the actual post by clicking on the title.

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   Kilwag on October 25, 2007 - Reply

   Are you talking about our RSS feed or the Antigravity Press feed? I’m trying to combat two specific sites that are passing off SnA content as their own. One site in particular is almost a complete mirror of SnA, the only thing that keeps it from being 100% copied is that our RSS feed doesn’t contain the whole post on the longer ones.

   I think this may be a discussion better served offline. If you don’t object(and the email address you commented with is valid) I’ll be contacting you.

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   Abflex on October 25, 2007 - Reply

   Nope, it wasn’t my real email. Changed it now. I get a little bit paranoid in the game since web criticism can be misinterpreted. I guess you could call me scared. Or just careful. Or weak…

   However, I totally agree on you regarding the content theifing if they publish the material as their own. I checked the Antigravitypress site and yes, they are indeed passing of the content, especially the comics, as their own. Well, they have you as their number one link in the sidebar but it really don’t explain that a lot of the content they publish come from your site. If I were you I would contact them and tell them that their actions are about as cool as Pauly Shore on crack. Don’t know about the other site but from what you’re saying, it sounds like they’re even worse.

   Wow, this is a huge wall of text. The bottom line is that I think, as I stated before, it’s better to contact the bad guys than to punish all of your rss subscribers. (And I don’t think they actually syndicate the RSS feed since they host the images on their own domain. Atleast Antigravitypress does.).

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   Kilwag on October 25, 2007 - Reply

   No, no Antigravity Press is MC’s gig, we syndicate his comics here (with permission) and he is a big part of Skate and Annoy. I’m talking about something else. I mentioned AGP because you chose to comment on the comic that wasn’t related to the comic. I though maybe Mark had altered his RSS feed because someone was also lifting his content as well.