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I was doing a google search for the application ForestPad that I put up on The Code Project a couple of years ago and I noticed that another site, manbu dot net, seems to be screen scraping code project and delivering the content of articles as if they originated at manbu. Then they are using google adsense on the page to make money off of The Code Project and my article (among many others, of course). This seems slimy to me but is it even legal? Even though I provided the article as an open source thing to Code Project, can a third party just copy the article and code verbatim, strip out information regarding the author, and publish it as their own? An example link is below: link I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. Thanks, Timothy Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net
Actually, now I've gone to look for it, I'm wondering how the source code for my BabyKeyboardBash application - only posted on CodeProject - has ended up on the following two Chinese sites too: Link 1[^] Link 2[^] Interestingly, links to my articles (with my name still attached), appear on DevAsp.net, hivewiki.com, codeguru.cn, manbu.net (of course), and ecodebank.com, as well as yagah.sonance.net, www.codeproject.com.look-for.us, pagebang.com and securebar.secure-tunnel.com, which all seem to be crawlers that actually display a copy of the Code Project site. (I decided not to include direct links rather than give any of these sites further ratings with search engines)
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Hey Chris, As you'd surely have noticed, they are directly linking to the CP images, so they are also stealing CP bandwidth. Maybe you could redirect all file requests from their domain to the badger-badger song - that will teach those rotten bastards a lesson :-D
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*)Nish, I would tell the other way round. For all such image requests and source downloads, give a download of EICAR.com from here: http://www.eicar.org/anti_virus_test_file.htm[^] With such frequent viruses, search engines will give a warning to the users. http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2006/08/google_to_warn_of_badware_site.html[^] Just kidding. But we have teach them how much disgusting is plagiarism.
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It's absolutely illegal. I'm getting legal advice on how best to proceed.
cheers, Chris Maunder
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If they are legally out-of-reach due to their country-of-orgin, you may wish to ask the legal advisor as to what types of punishment you may (legally) unleash upon them. With all of the clever software people congregating around here can produce, I'd imagine some pretty imaginative and just retribution might be doled out. As a for-example, I have an SMTP mailer that allows mailing of N copies of a message, with real (spoofed, or random) return address which was created/used to convince an organization to take me off their mailing list. Many proper request were simply ignored. When they received the multi-request with the message: "You have ignored my requests to drop me from your mailing list. If 100 reminders to stop aren't enough, I can and will send a lot more." They cooperated immediately. Not at all a denial-of-service attack, but rather, an attention getting mechanism from those who otherwise won't be bothered with cooperating. Sometimes, the white-hat has to make use of the black-hat's weapons. Not all will agree, I'm sure - and would think me evil for the previous paragraph's contents. Would this violate the philosphy behind CP or reinforce it? Within the limits of the law, their's a lot to be said for pragmatism. Balboos
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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If they are legally out-of-reach due to their country-of-orgin, you may wish to ask the legal advisor as to what types of punishment you may (legally) unleash upon them. With all of the clever software people congregating around here can produce, I'd imagine some pretty imaginative and just retribution might be doled out. As a for-example, I have an SMTP mailer that allows mailing of N copies of a message, with real (spoofed, or random) return address which was created/used to convince an organization to take me off their mailing list. Many proper request were simply ignored. When they received the multi-request with the message: "You have ignored my requests to drop me from your mailing list. If 100 reminders to stop aren't enough, I can and will send a lot more." They cooperated immediately. Not at all a denial-of-service attack, but rather, an attention getting mechanism from those who otherwise won't be bothered with cooperating. Sometimes, the white-hat has to make use of the black-hat's weapons. Not all will agree, I'm sure - and would think me evil for the previous paragraph's contents. Would this violate the philosphy behind CP or reinforce it? Within the limits of the law, their's a lot to be said for pragmatism. Balboos
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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If there are other ways, that's great. I only meant to introduce the suggestion within the concept of their being not other ways. It's philosophically very touchy, reaching well beyond the computer world. For myself, at least, I have not and then considered where the proper balance is between remaining true to a particular philosophy vs. a (true) greater good. How much is my decision influenced by ego (from either point of view). Somewhat off topic. Much like a Sci-Fi short I saw, some time ago: a person sent back in history to kill Hitler's mother before he was born. Presupposing that it would avert the horrid consequences of his existence, is it ethical? Or, closer to reality, I've been asked (as a vegetarian for 30+ years) if trapped on an island, would I rather starve than eat meat? When asked this, the only decent answer I could give was - 'whatever I say now isn't worth anything, since I'm neither stranded nor starving.' I'm way off topic, that's for sure, but I understand the position. The theft of intellectual property is not life-threatening, so how much response is worth how much soul-tarnishing . . . if it is soul tarnishing. (Grin followed by thoughtful look). Balboos -- modified at 6:47 Monday 5th March, 2007
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
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If there are other ways, that's great. I only meant to introduce the suggestion within the concept of their being not other ways. It's philosophically very touchy, reaching well beyond the computer world. For myself, at least, I have not and then considered where the proper balance is between remaining true to a particular philosophy vs. a (true) greater good. How much is my decision influenced by ego (from either point of view). Somewhat off topic. Much like a Sci-Fi short I saw, some time ago: a person sent back in history to kill Hitler's mother before he was born. Presupposing that it would avert the horrid consequences of his existence, is it ethical? Or, closer to reality, I've been asked (as a vegetarian for 30+ years) if trapped on an island, would I rather starve than eat meat? When asked this, the only decent answer I could give was - 'whatever I say now isn't worth anything, since I'm neither stranded nor starving.' I'm way off topic, that's for sure, but I understand the position. The theft of intellectual property is not life-threatening, so how much response is worth how much soul-tarnishing . . . if it is soul tarnishing. (Grin followed by thoughtful look). Balboos -- modified at 6:47 Monday 5th March, 2007
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
Balboos wrote:
Or, closer to reality, I've been asked (as a vegetarian for 30+ years) if trapped on an island, would I rather starve than eat meat? When asked this, the only decent answer I could give was - 'whatever I say now isn't worth anything, since I'm neither stranded nor starving.'
Well said. It really bugs me when people make self righteous proclamations about how they'd act in life or death situations. While sometimes it's clear that they'd actually do what they said, in most cases it's obvious that they're just sounding off without having really thought through the consequences, or even knowing they're BSing to build themselves up.
-- Rules of thumb should not be taken for the whole hand.
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Hey Chris, As you'd surely have noticed, they are directly linking to the CP images, so they are also stealing CP bandwidth. Maybe you could redirect all file requests from their domain to the badger-badger song - that will teach those rotten bastards a lesson :-D
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. (*Sample chapter available online*) -
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I'm pretty sure you can issue a take-down request a little farther upstream from them, and have the ISP itself removed from DNS servers if they don't take care of it. No ISP I've ever seen wants to be taken off the air, so this might be an effective tactic.
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I was doing a google search for the application ForestPad that I put up on The Code Project a couple of years ago and I noticed that another site, manbu dot net, seems to be screen scraping code project and delivering the content of articles as if they originated at manbu. Then they are using google adsense on the page to make money off of The Code Project and my article (among many others, of course). This seems slimy to me but is it even legal? Even though I provided the article as an open source thing to Code Project, can a third party just copy the article and code verbatim, strip out information regarding the author, and publish it as their own? An example link is below: link I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts on this. Thanks, Timothy Timothy Lee Russell http://www.anatone.net
Here is a fast way to stop this site- notify Google, which is notorious for evaluating the content of sites on which it has AdWords. Google is particularly finicky over illegal activities, and robo-clicking. Therefore, I have no doubt that Google would forbid further AdWords advertising on this site if they were notified of the illegal actions. I can't believe anyone would stoop to such low-level stealing in the first place. :mad:
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