Newsgrpoup articles "borrowed" by web sites

I am afraid it is a way of life on the web these days, and I doubt if anything can be done. It happens all of the time on Usenet groups, especially those concerned with web design and programming. There are posts much like yours in some Usenet groups from time to time, but I have yet seen anyone come up with a way to prevent it. I have a lot of posts that have been lifted and published at various sites. About the only way to do anything often would be to get a lawyer to sue under international copyright law, and the lawyer is likely to want a very large up front fee unless financial loss can be proved by unauthorized publication, and the person being sued has a large sum of money that could be collected. __________________________________

No.

Neither. This is just another wannabe-webmaster trying to get some hits by putting contents on his websiste, and those contents are stolen. Methinks that if that guy is making some money out of his website, that money is due to the authors of the contents.

Oh well, he is probably making enough money to pay for his hosting fees and not much more... For a moment I thought Nils would become a millionaire...

Ooooh ... I'd LIKE that ....

Cheers

Nils Gustaf

There's actually quite a few sites that do that. I've run across my posts from here on several (drinksplanet, aand other automated sites) and even one on something like about.com, where it looked like someone just lifted a load our discussions to form content. It's certainly technically illegal copyright violation, but as CWDJRXYZ stated probably not worth pursuing.

Out of curiosity, are your posts there? You have your newsreader set up for no archive, correct?

Mike Tommasi wrote:

no archive is beat by any reply which will pick up the original post and archive it. when one then searches the archives, viola!

Dale, I note that on the page referenced it looks like a winemonger quote in the sidebar, but when you follow the link, you, Dale, are the star of the show albeit without attribution. (and why are your drinking of Pbuttetoutgrains anyway?)