Comments on: Blaming Technology for Splogging http://geneabloggers.com/blaming-technology-splogging/ The ultimate site for your genealogy blog Tue, 21 May 2013 13:02:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: geniaus http://geneabloggers.com/blaming-technology-splogging/#comment-9453 geniaus Fri, 27 May 2011 02:36:35 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=13884#comment-9453 RT @geneabloggers: Stop blaming the technology-a great post about splogs and blog content theft http://su.pr/5yytml #genealogy

]]> By: geneabloggers http://geneabloggers.com/blaming-technology-splogging/#comment-9450 geneabloggers Fri, 27 May 2011 00:41:03 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=13884#comment-9450 Stop blaming the technology – a great post about splogs and blog content theft http://su.pr/5yytml #genealogy

]]> By: JJT http://geneabloggers.com/blaming-technology-splogging/#comment-9452 JJT Thu, 26 May 2011 20:11:09 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=13884#comment-9452 Via a standing Google alert I have set up, I recently became aware of another slant on the whole splog issue: An aggregation site that focuses on PDFs or “eBooks” that crawls the web, catalogs what it finds and then presents the documents in its own viewer.

Looking at the code setup, it doesn’t archive the content locally but pulls it directly from the original site. The Download link also pulls from the original site, but it is far from apparent what the source of the document might be.

Not sure they might be trying to sidestep the copyright issues somewhat in their technique or if they are just oblivious and/or don’t care.

Me no like, but I haven’t had time to give them what for yet. Here’s an example – it is pulling a PDF from my site that outlines who’s who in a family photo and some Coney Island info:

http://ow.ly/53UOC

]]> By: Banai Lynn Feldstein http://geneabloggers.com/blaming-technology-splogging/#comment-9451 Banai Lynn Feldstein Thu, 26 May 2011 19:55:16 +0000 http://www.geneabloggers.com/?p=13884#comment-9451 It’s funny how you link to Richard Byrne’s blog and he specifically states at the end, “You cannot copy an article from The New York Times and republish it in another place without permission…” when our latest genealogy splogger did exactly that.

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