Stop stealing my blog posts.....
There has been some discussion recently on some DL's here at Microsoft about sites that re-post blog posts without permission. I will call it what it is which is the theft of copyrighted materials for the purpose of monetary gain. I don't like saying copyrighted because copyrights get a bad rap these days depending on who you speak to, but from the perspective that *I* sat down and *I* wrote the blog post, the work does belong to me. If someone else wants to repost it, at least credit me with the original posting. Anyway.....most of the talk on the DL is about how to address it and deal with it and block it and stop it and blah blah blah blah....I decided to blog about it and then see if this post would get stolen too.
Check this out...if you look at the comments for my three most recent posts to my blog --
More P2V Conversion FUN with SCVMM 2008...
All three of those posts have a pingback linking to mstechnews.info and then the first parts of my posts duplicated verbatim with a link back to my posts near the end of each entry. If you click on the calendar links to the right you will see that several Technet and MSDN blogs are getting the same treatment all in the quest for advertising dollars from some unscrupulous miscreant.
In reality I don't care all that much because it isn't taking money away from me. I receive no advertising revenue from my blog. But I don't like what I am doing to be diluted. I also don't like people getting redirected off to 3rd party sites that are sprinkled with ads, click-throughs and who knows what else. I really don't like what I am posting to get listed as "Anonymous" when I am hardly anonymous. If I wanted to post things anonymously I would create an anonymous blog.
So...to the owner of mstechnews.info... If you want to link to me....fine. If you want to use pieces of my blog posts in your own.....also fine....as long as you credit me. But please.....
Stop stealing my blog posts......
Cheers....
ps....I will start deleting these kind of pingbacks in the future.
note......WHOIS on mstechnews.info via CodeFlux
Comments
Anonymous
November 06, 2008
PingBack from http://mstechnews.info/2008/11/stop-stealing-my-blog-posts/Anonymous
November 06, 2008
No. Stealing is not nice at all. Bad mstechnews! Interesting place you got here. Nice picture, too.Anonymous
November 06, 2008
The comment has been removedAnonymous
November 06, 2008
Is am not sure, wheater this might be a bigger problem. Right now this MSTECHNEWS aggregates almost all technet and msdn blogs. But there is no guarantee, that it will not switch to an malware spreading site,...Anonymous
November 06, 2008
As you are on a Microsoft owned site, I'd send the Microsoft lawyers after them. [The lawyers, in this case, are useful for once - and probably aren't busy. :-) ]Anonymous
November 06, 2008
Hi! I am also affected. There is on mstechview.info a ABOUT side where you can request, that this side no longer uses your blog... I did this, lets look, if it helps.. And i remove all of the trackbacks from this side... ChristianAnonymous
November 06, 2008
Thanks for all the comments! It doesn't matter to me if it is illegal in the US and legal in some other coutry. It is just bad form. Though I have noticed that the site did NOT pick up this particular post. I wonder why..... ChrisAnonymous
November 07, 2008
Security Session von Jesper Johansson. Sehr anschaulich, gut und witzig. Key takeways: Thieves have no