Stop, thief!

I’ve been lucky. I’ve never really been a victim of theft, and when I have it has been for small amounts of money or insignificant items.

photo credit: nocklebeast

Now I have come across someone stealing the content from my site - and anyone else who is aggregated in Planet Ubuntu - and seeking to profit from this through the use of Google Adverts.

The culprit? http://linuxindex.com

I have sent an e-mail to the domain contact asking them to cease reproducing my content without permission immediately. I have also reported the policy violation to Google AdSense. I would urge anyone else on Planet Ubuntu to do the same.

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Published:: 3.6.08 / 11am

Category:: Browsing, Linux

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Meneer R 3.6.08 / 12pm

Well, although legally you are problely right, i can’t image you taking a problem with a blogroll.

Isn’t google-reader doing the exact same thing? Showing your content, with your name, linking to your site, with ads on the side to make money?
schwuk 3.6.08 / 1pm

This person didn’t ask my permission to re-publish and profit from my content. That is completely different from me allowing my content to be aggregated in the several planets I am member of, or someone reading my content in a news reader. In both cases they have explicit or implied permission, and the content is directly linked to my site so it is also explicitly attributed.

That said, if any of the planets I am associated with started running adverts, then I would absolutely reconsider my involvement with them.
archlinux user 3.7.08 / 9pm

Google doesn’t give a cr*p , in fact they are much more corrupt than that site. I remember when I had a blog to make some experiment I accessed through a russian proxy, google ads were offering siberian tigers, other japanese whores.
That’s one of the reasons I closed my blog (I felt bad, kind of like promoting animals smuggling in an idirect way.. g**gle sucks!)
earobinson » Hello World 2.5 3.29.08 / 7pm

[...] to say its great. I love the new interface. As well as updating in response to all the websites stealing planet Ubuntu content I am going to try using the ©Feed plugin for wordpress. So we will see how [...]

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