Comments on: Perfect stealing by geo2web.com

By: James Fee

James Fee — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:05:41 +0000

Its about 3/4 of the way down. Here is the direct link:

http://www.geo2web.com/2009/04/23/view-2009-esri-developer-summit-presenations-and-code/

I’m guessing it is from the blog and not Planet Geospatial since I’m the only one. The post before this one didn’t show, so I’m not sure what is new.

By: mloskot

mloskot — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:59:08 +0000

James,

I can’t see any links to your planet or blog in the page source code. Can you see it, near VIA label?

By: James Fee

James Fee — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 04:54:38 +0000

Looks like he’s pulling my feed again.

By: mloskot

mloskot — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:05:23 +0000

James,

Yes, looks like it works. I’ll keep you updated!

By: James Fee

James Fee — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 04:09:26 +0000

Looks like its not taking my content as well now. At least that is fixed. I just updated Planet Geospatial as well so that should stop that flow as well.

Thanks for working this our Mateusz, its bothered me for months and I’ve not acted on it.

By: mloskot

mloskot — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:23:54 +0000

David,

Perhaps, but I’m not going to ask for it.

By: David

David — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:35:31 +0000

Maybe Directions media or the NSGIC or another party with more resources would be willing to pursue this?

By: mloskot

mloskot — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 17:09:20 +0000

James, I will drop you a note about how I’ve fixed it for now. As I see, he nothing has been stolen from planet.osgeo.org for ~24 hours.
I also blocked him access to my own website, not only to the planet.

Alan is right that it’s impossible to take care of blocking access to all websites syndicated in the planetgs.com or planet.osgeo.org.
However, I’m quite sure it’s always good to block him, so our planets don’t participate nor being a proxy in stealing blogs.

Later, other blogs owners may try to fight against this on their own as well.

By: Allan Doyle

Allan Doyle — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:24:08 +0000

So, if you click on “Ads by Google” on geo2web, you can get to a Google Ads feedback form (click on the link “Send Google your thoughts on the site or the ads you just saw”) where you can say that you think the ads are on a site that violates the AdSense TOS, namely “Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others”

By: Allan Doyle

Allan Doyle — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:19:17 +0000

I just tried commenting on his site and got a ’500′, ditto if I click any article header.

The site sure is a ripoff, though!

@James – once he has your list of sites, he doesn’t need your feed any more.