Nanci and I love finding out people are linking to our posts, but too often we find that another site is lifting our content specifically for a way to show their ads. As the Creative Commons license declaration on the left says,
The content on this blog is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.You may excerpt or reproduce our content on your site without additional permission as long as you credit the post’s author (and optionally the blog name) for non-commercial use. In addition, placing advertisements between the reuse of our post title and the post content is strictly prohibited. In the opinion of this blog’s owners and authors this constitutes using our content for commercial purposes.
Contacting the blog owner doesn’t seem to do any good, and our readers have let us know they want us to ID the content thieves. This page will be updated frequently to identify those sites we find using our content without proper attribution and/or with their ad surrounded by our content. We’re going to show the URI of the offending post as text rather than as a link because we don’t want to send traffic their way that may help them make more money off our content. I’ll also try to remember to post the additions at the top of the list so you can see the newest offenders more easily.
Updated 12 October: You can now see the latest content thievery on in the sidebar on the right side of our site. That will let you see when we have found another site using our content in violation of our license.
Updated 30 November: Nanci and I have talked bout this and we have decided to remove the text URI to the violation so we don’t give them unintended page views.
It looks like the Ubuntu Netbook and Mozilla Fenec blogs that we keep having to slap down are run by the same people, so if an infringement shows up on one it’s likely to show up on the other within a matter of hours.
Due to the nature of this page we’re disabling comments and trackbacks. We appreciate readers who want to help spread the word of what we’re doing and we hope it may inspire other bloggers to do something similar.
Site: coolweather (Added Wednesday, 27 January)
Our post: Peng’s links for Tuesday, 26 January
Infringement: Complete republishing of my post, no attribution
Site: Just Linux! (Added Wednesday, 12 January)
Our post: Ubuntu Tweak, and it’s website, get a major upgrade
Infringement: No attribution, wrapping our content around their ads
Site: VUMESOFT (Added Wednesday, 12 January)
Our post: Ubuntu Tweak, and it’s website, get a major upgrade
Infringement:No attribution, wrapping my content around their ads
Site: Mozilla Fennec (Added Thursday, 31 December)
Our post: Does Chrome or Chromium get extra long on some sites?
Infringement: The same thing that’s gotten them in our hall of shame many times before
Site: Mozilla Fennec (Added Saturday, 19 December)
Our post: Lifehacker readers love Mac4Lin
Infringement: Using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Mozilla Fennec (Added Saturday, 19 December)
Our post: Peng’s links for Thursday, 17 December
Infringement: Using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Mozilla Fennec (Added Friday, 4 December)
Our post: Updating the Wordle
Infringement: Using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Ubuntu Netbook (Added Friday, 4 December)
Our post: Peng’s Links for Thursday, 3 December
Infringement: Using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Mozilla Fennec (Added Monday, 30 November)
Our post: Regain Compiz desktop rotation with the mouse in Ubuntu 9.10
Infringement: Using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Ubuntu Netbook (Added Monday, 30 November)
Our post: Regain Compiz desktop rotation with the mouse in Ubuntu 9.10
Infringement: Using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Mozilla Fennec (Added Thursday, 26 November)
Our post: Update the GlobalMenu in Ubuntu 9.10
Infringement: Ads between the title and the link to our post (No excerpt of our post is used). Mainly they’re using our content to get eyeballs for their ads.
Site: Ubuntu Netbook (Added Thursday, 26 October)
Our post: Get more info on the decision to dump the Gimp from lucid
Infringement: Ads between the title and the brief excerpt of our post.
Site: Ubuntu Netbook (Added Thursday, 26 October)
Our post: Update the GlobalMenu in Ubuntu 9.10
Infringement: Ads between the title and the brief excerpt of our post.
Site: Baseball Briefs (Added Monday, 12 October)
Our post: Captain Torre, I trust you know what to do with a broom
Infringement: No Attribution
Site: Oujda Times (Added Sunday, 4 October)
Our post: It took a week, but they got it done
Infringement: No Attribution, and it looks like the entire site’s purpose is to support their website-based ad farm
Site: Baseball Briefs (Added Sunday, 4 October)
Our post: It took a week, but they got it done
Infringement: No Attribution
Site: Baseball Briefs (Added Sunday, 27 September)
Our post: Forget scheduling a tee time for next week
Infringement: No Attribution
Site: LinuxArticles (Added Sunday, 6 September)
Our post: Here we go again
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content (Will these asshats ever learn?)
Site: LinuxArticles
Our post: Good news for open source loving musos
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content
Site: LinuxArticles
Our post: There’s a new way to read the Boston Globe
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content
Site: LinuxArticles
Our post: Peng’s links for Monday, 21 September
Infringement: No Attribution, Ads between title and content. As bloody usual.
