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Originally Posted by marketsmart
Chio, it's not your problem. People are going to abuse no matter what. I can manually change links just as easy. Personally, I would run the content in silent mode rather than change someone's links. I have ethics.
If you are a blog owner and dont want your shit ripped and changed then its your responsibility to add a layer of protection like making people sign up to get your feeds. People steal content all the time protected or not and it';s not ABP's job to protect your content for you. It's like blaming a gun store for someone using a gun in the wrong way.. Not their responsibility IMHO..  |
I think, substantively, you're right -- obviously, don't blame ABP for people stealing content, just because it has feature A or feature B. I mean, shit, from the command line, I can just type "wget site.com" and suck down your content anyway.
But there should be NO LOVE for people who steal other people's shit. There's the "right" way to pull feeds, and there's the "wrong" way to pull feeds -- and it doesn't take a genious to figure out which is which.
I disagree that blog owners should have to do something "special" with their feeds to protect them -- the whole point of RSS is to make it easy. If sponsors just shit-canned the accounts of people who steal, it wouldn't be profitable to do so.
Keep reporting thieves, and make posts about the sponsors who don't do shit about it.