MMOWTF - My first real thread!

[Coyote]

Yer lucky I love you LFG, you big blonde hunk of man.

[Coyote]

Like I said - It ain't about me. I do well enough...

But some of the smaller sites who could use those few extra clicks? Or Joe-N00bie trying to make a name?

Any form of plagerism bugs me to no end.

[RadarX]

I've contacted Register.com's abuse department and I'll see where that gets me.

[Niber]

Originally Posted by RadarX

Coyote's material is in fact copyrighted just like anything that appears on our network. I'm looking for a name in their knowledge base so I don't have to send in a ticket.

Yeah it is LFG. Judging from a Fan Faire article I did further down I'd say they are grabbing our RSS feed.

Check my post before this one Radar.. it contains the email address and the form you need to fill out for a DMCA report.

If that doesn't work let me know.. maybe I'll make a phone call.

[LFG]

Another thing you guys could do - which worked well for us - Niber wrote our RSS perl/cgi script to bring our feed articles up in a window that includes our hyperlinked header when someone swipes our feed.

That made it impossible for anyone to steal our feed without also whoring our site and providing a direct link to us.

See this: LINK for an example of what I mean. It goes to the article on the Official Forums, but brings the article up within a EQ2Flames window, which allows the user to click on our graphic banner at the top to come directly to this site. There is at least one site swiping our feed now without permission, and by doing that they are driving new traffic to our site. Instead of me getting pissed about them doing this without our permission, therefore, I look at it as a benefit.

This is far too complicated for me to understand how it works, you'd have to ask Niber how it's done if you're interested.

[RadarX]

Originally Posted by Niber

Check my post before this one Radar.. it contains the email address and the form you need to fill out for a DMCA report.

If that doesn't work let me know.. maybe I'll make a phone call.

Thanks man, I'll be dropping them an email as well.

LFG I'll pass that idea along to our tech guys and see if they are interested. It bugs the crap outta me when people just leech other sites for work. Remember the good old days where they'd at least rewrite stuff so it didn't look identical?

[Coyote]

Or from my personal bouts of plagerism, they'd take an entire article or story, change "coyote" to their name and repost it somewhere quietly.

*sighs*

I miss the good ol'days.

[Savanja]

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That's a little bit o' bullshit. We need our hits dammit! Smack em around Radar.

[LFG]

Originally Posted by Coyote

Or from my personal bouts of plagerism, they'd take an entire article or story, change "coyote" to their name and repost it somewhere quietly.

*sighs*

I miss the good ol'days.

My favorite is when someone manufactures an entire interview from PR releases. At least that involves creative writing!

[winwin]

Originally Posted by Coyote

Or from my personal bouts of plagerism, they'd take an entire article or story, change "coyote" to their name and repost it somewhere quietly.

*sighs*

I miss the good ol'days.

Want me to find the owners and do the voice thing? JK. What assholes to steal your material like that. We should eat em. I'm gonna see if I can find out any information as well.

I'm starting a blog site btw, trying to decide on the name currently... I'll totally be linking you guys, because I loff youz. I'd do anything for my new friendsez.

To quote Brak:

"I would dip a pig in butter/
Ride it round the playground/
If I knew it would make you love me/
I'd put soup on a stick"