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Can RSS Feeds be Considered Content Theft?
In addition to what I do in adult, I also keep some mainstream blogs and recently I was hit by this huge outcry from a blogger who objected to her RSS feeds being used on other public sites such as LiveJournal. She's calling the blog owner a plagiarist and jumping on her for "stealing" her content.
This is the rational (which frankly escapes me)
If I put your feed on my private reader, that's okay because only I'm reading it.
If I put your feed on my blog space, or friends page at LiveJournal where other people can see it, I'm stealing your work.
Isn't the whole point of RSS feeds to spread the work around? Certainly, in adult, we'd never think of saying RSS feeds are only for your personal use, don't put them on your blogs.
So is it different in the mainstream?
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