schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff
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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:46 +0100
:Revision: 		1
:Copyright:		CC by-nc-sa


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Remove the aggregation permission of phpfreaks.com
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:Description:
    In a lack of a contact email address on phpfreaks.com (intentionally
    without any link, see here, why), I send this as an open letter:

In a lack of a contact email address on phpfreaks.com (intentionally without
any link, see here, why), I send this as an open letter:

    phpfreaks.com administrators,

    with this, I remove the permission to aggregate any kind of content,
    published on my domain schlitt.info or written by me (Tobias Schlitt) in
    general. From now on, you are not allowed to publish any kind of content
    written by me on your side. This also includes content, which is already
    aggregated through 3rd party resources.

    Note, that you might breach against effective law, if you still keep
    publishing my content without given permission and probably could get
    fined
    for copyright issues in some states.

    With kind regards,
    Tobias Schlitt

I also tried sending this to webmaster@phpfreaks.com and
hostmaster@phpfreaks.com.

If you wonder for a reason, it is that I still found my blog articles
aggregated on that website, through the `phpdevelper.org`__. While I in
general appreciate that people aggregate my content (I think this is made
clear by offering XML
feeds), I now explicitly disallow the phpfreaks.com website to do so. I do not
write my content so that they can make money out of it with placing sneaky ads
inside it.

.. __: http://phpdeveloper.org

Hope that's understandable.


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Trackbacks
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- Aggregating and stealing content on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:06:28 +0200 in Tobias Schlitt - a passion for php
  
  Back from vacation I found an interessting article via Kore, which deals
  with the problem of content aggregation, based on German law. The main sense
  is basically: "Someone who provides forgein content on the net without
  asking for a permission viola


Comments
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- Wez Furlong at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:55:14 +0200

  If you feel so strongly about this, then you might find it interesting to
  note that we met with one of the people behind phpfreaks at LinuxTag 2003. 
  At that time he was living in Germany--he may still be there, which might
  mean that you have better legal leverage.

  http://www.phpfreaks.com/articles/134/0.php?linear=true&sort=1

- Toby at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:05:41 +0200

  Hi Wez!

  Thanks for the hint! Having the maintainer of PHPFreaks living in Germany
  would give me a legal basis against such stuff, I think. I will have a chat
  with my lawyer about that.

  Cheers! Toby

- Hans at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:07:25 +0200

  Tobias,

  Whois info will provide you both a administrative contact and a technical
  contact address.

  Besides the whois part I do wonder if you can deny anyone to use your xml
  feeds. It might even differ per country. A.f.a.i.k. there is no legal base
  for this.

  Regards,

  Hans

- Toby at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:12:36 +0200

  At least in Germany I can do, AFAIK. Providing an XML feed does not mean,
  that you are allowed to use the provided content for whatever purpose,
  re-publish and even modify it.

  As I said, in general, I have no issue with people aggregating my content,
  as long as they don't put put ads into my text and make money with exactly
  my words.  Please don't get me wrong. I really appreciate getting aggregated
  on pages like PHPDevelopers, but the PHPFreaks site is only for the purpose
  of publishing other peoples content and adding ads to it.

- enygma at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:52:10 +0200

  I have actually thought about trying to figure out where they're coming from
  and block access to the feed from that IP, but it's kind of a silly thing to
  do.

  I hate how they put their ads all over everything...

  (..though I did find it slighly funny when they aggregated this posting to
  their news section: http://www.phpfreaks.com/articles/736/0.php)

- Toby at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 14:55:26 +0200

  Hehe, yeah that one was quite funny. ;)

  Anyway, I think if lot's of people start blocking their spider it should
  work out. But since I seem to be the only one complaining against it, I
  don't have much hope here.

  Did you consider anything else against their abuse?

- Paul at Thu, 20 Jul 2006 16:23:25 +0200

  Check out:

  http://www.thewebfreaks.com/about.php

  for names and contact information...

- Ivo Jansch at Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:38:38 +0200

  On the one hand, you have a point. On the other though, I think that if you
  publish your site, you can't expect anybody using your feeds to play by your
  rules. 

  What if a newspaper publishes information from your article. They sell the
  newspapers and make money from it. Would you have a problem with that too?

- Toby at Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:44:04 +0200

  Hi!

  Thanks for your feedback!

  As I said. I don't have anything against using my content. In fact I
  appreciate it, else I would not have published it. But the way of adding ads
  to my content is what makes me upset. The newspaper would be sold for the
  efforts they have (layouting, printing, etc.). Any other page can use
  whatever banners near my content as they like. But this case is quite
  different.

  Regards, Toby