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Saturday, August 20, 2011

Important Blog Notice: Full RSS Feed Text is Not Provided with Immediate Effect

I am sorry to make this hard decision and I feel very obliged to do so. But owing to serious RSS feed scrapping and content theft from my Blog for some time now, I think I have to take an effective measure to stop these without any further hesitation and delay. I hope this will not cause too much inconvenience to you if you are one of my regular readers who used to read via your feed reader. To all whom are affected, my deep apologies here but you're encouraged to click on my direct URL links to my Blog articles from now on. Still, the RSS feed summaries are provided in the future, which should still serve well for alerting purpose. Whenever you find something that maybe of interest, just do it, i.e., click on my URL post links, and I am sure that you can always find out more at the original posts.

Nevertheless, I hope this measure would be an interim one, until I can find out a better solution to the problem without taking out this *option* from my regular readers who subscribed and read via the RSS feed in a consistent basis, and mostly.

Update (8-22):-

I feel there is a need to publish the Whois registrant information here for a recent major scraper site who consistently steals contents from my site (and many others' as well) using robot but whom intentionally remove all the embedded links of others' articles stolen (not even to say making any attribution to the original authorships!). Here it is:-

"Registrant:
Domains by Proxy, Inc.

DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: [Deleted]
Created on: 27-Apr-11
Expires on: 27-Apr-12
Last Updated on: 07-Jun-11

Administrative Contact:
Private, Registration [Deleted]@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598

Technical Contact:
Private, Registration [Deleted]@domainsbyproxy.com
Domains by Proxy, Inc.
DomainsByProxy.com
15111 N. Hayden Rd., Ste 160, PMB 353
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
United States
(480) 624-2599 Fax -- (480) 624-2598

Domain servers in listed order:
NS21.IXWEBHOSTING.COM
NS22.IXWEBHOSTING.COM"

Well, you thief, if you read this, I just wish to ask: What are you doing? Why are you doing this? Do you feel ashamed of what you do?? >:-|

Update (8-23):-

Someone asked me to disclose the IP (or simply the Domain) of that particular offending website (instead of the registrant as shown above, whom is just a Proxy) but then strangely assumed that I didn't know the IP. Actually, I knew it. However, for the sake of safety for all my readers and by no means I should publicise the theft site here at all as well, I shall not disclose it fully but will only show the following, still:-



As I have already replied, the problem is not as simple as one would suppose. Usually, looking things from the topmost surface won't help anything. The battles and wars between the two confronting sides are always ongoing, and those thief webmasters knew very well how to do the theft in many different ways!

Most importantly, it should and must be noted that it's me and my readers whom are the victims. In particular, I firmly believe that I am NOT the one whom should be blamed. Is it my fault of me in any way when my own Blog contents are stolen? WHO have been doing wrong, illegally and unethically actually after all?? >:-[

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This isn't really a problem you can remedy or fix, I also used to take offense to these posers grabbing my posts and putting them on their sites or blogs but I realized it was about getting the info out there not really who provided it unless they blatantly tried to play it off as theirs. I had an rss grabber on my site but it provided a link back to the orignal article as well as who the content was originally posted by . Wish more bloggers would use that function instead of just taking other peoples stuff and not giving a source.
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Yes, I agree. Thank you for your support.
"I hope this will not cause too much inconvenience to you if you are one of my regular readers who used to read via your feed reader"

Actually it does. And to me, all that sounds a silly excuse to make your hit counter get higher...
1 reply · active 707 weeks ago
Hey guy, you know, the hit counts may not be higher but readers may unsubscribe. You can't easily change the habit of your readers anyway.

After all, this is not an "excuse" of me myself against what you supposed and accused, but I have to protect my own works and intellectual property at the end of the day, which I have spent a lot of efforts and time to research and prepare.

P.S. The 1001 Noisy Cameras have also done the same starting from today.
Rice, you clearly don't know much about how the Internet works.

Domains by Proxy is NOT the owner of the domain in question, but merely a service offered by many registrars that allows the real owner to anonymize their contact details. Your post therefore just seems silly.

Post the name of the offending domain, and it's IP address. That's what would be really helpful, because then people can block that site from hitting their own web pages.
5 replies · active 707 weeks ago
If the case is just so simple as you've said, there will be no more web scrapping problem anymore as the IP of every Internet site is already known.
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Sam Smith · 707 weeks ago

You still haven't identified the offending web site.
Also 'scraping' not 'scrapping'.

IP address blocking is indeed a very good way to stop scrapers. Smart web site managers use it routinely, alongside other anti-scraping strategies. You may know cameras, but you don't know web. Hence your scraping problem.
Man, are you going to argue with me about the use of British English or I should and must use US or simply Australian English of yours? :-o
He was trying to help you, numbnuts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping

scraping and scrapping are two different things, British English or otherwise.
Right or not, personal attack is not allowed here, you're banned.
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Michael A. · 707 weeks ago

Good to see you're cleaning up the wild cats...
2 replies · active 707 weeks ago
Um.. The wild cats are still there, even partial feeds they are still stealing! >:-|
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Michael A. · 707 weeks ago

Well, they have to live with themselves. Stuck with pathetic me, me, me... :o)

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