So. I came to this late enough that the site is down and I can't check to see if any of my blogs was scraped, except by doing a google search for friendblab.com + [name of blog]. (It appears that lapin_agile is on some other friends lists, but may not have been scraped itself. And the alternity blogs do not appear to be there, though the game pops up in your post about squid on the mantlepiece.)
There are lots of levels at which this is annoying, but not least is the fact that if one chose to have an account at friendlab.com, one could login (according to the google-able user info for the site) and, presumably, delete or alter posts in one's account. But if they've scraped from an account on an elsewhere-blog and plonked that content up on their site, the creator of that content has no way of logging in and deleting because... no user account.
Surely that's a version of identity theft? And... I don't even know what category that belongs in, having one's stuff put without permission on a site, but not having the options/rights of having an account with the site.
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Date: 2012-08-16 04:26 pm (UTC)There are lots of levels at which this is annoying, but not least is the fact that if one chose to have an account at friendlab.com, one could login (according to the google-able user info for the site) and, presumably, delete or alter posts in one's account. But if they've scraped from an account on an elsewhere-blog and plonked that content up on their site, the creator of that content has no way of logging in and deleting because... no user account.
Surely that's a version of identity theft? And... I don't even know what category that belongs in, having one's stuff put without permission on a site, but not having the options/rights of having an account with the site.