Originally Posted by edgeprod

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.