# More content theft. **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 5, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375 "2013-08-05T06:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/1 "2013-08-05T06:36:10Z")
Another one. [http://straight-dope01.blogspot.com/](http://straight-dope01.blogspot.com/) ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/2 "2013-08-05T11:57:31Z")
They stole the MMP? I find that strangely funny. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/3 "2013-08-05T15:11:03Z")
Reported. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/4 "2013-08-05T15:25:25Z")
I though that’s the way internet worked. One orginal source, then copied into 1000 or more websites so when you search on a subject you get 1000 hits to the same information, uncredited. It must be the intended model, it works very well. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/5 "2013-08-05T16:28:07Z")
> [@IvoryTowerDenizen](#): > > They stole the MMP? I find that strangely funny. Looks like they stole the whole damned board…or at least a substantial chunk of it. Dozens of our threads are reposted there. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/6 "2013-08-05T18:17:39Z")
[blogspot.com](http://blogspot.com) is owned by Google. I’m sure Cecil is on first name terms with [Larry, Eric and Sergey](http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/). Shouldn’t take more than a five-minute phone call from the Ol’ Wise One to any of the three and that site would be toast. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/7 "2013-08-05T19:17:51Z")
Why would one steal content in that way? I don’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/8 "2013-08-05T20:03:05Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Why would one steal content in that way? I don’t get it. The purpose of the linked site is to try to make money from ads (and/or possibly some sort of SEO/Link farming) - and for this to be effective, it needs page content - stealing someone else’s content is easier than creating your own. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/9 "2013-08-05T22:51:01Z")
It boggles my mind that someone would go to a crappy looking webpage and decide to click on ad links. I guess it is true what they say: one’s estimation of fellow humans diminishes a little every day. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/10 "2013-08-06T00:52:58Z")
They just sent me a list of demands and what appears to be the Barnhouse’s thumb. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/11 "2013-08-06T02:10:39Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > They just sent me a list of demands and what appears to be the Barnhouse’s thumb. That’s what all those “table saw” discussions lead to. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/12 "2013-08-06T02:18:59Z")
Did they say “Need answer fast”? ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/13 "2013-08-06T03:46:12Z")
> [@Darth\_Panda](#): > > They just sent me a list of demands and what appears to be the Barnhouse’s thumb. Pfft. Idiots. Maim a forum we care about and then they’ll get our attention. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/14 "2013-08-06T07:11:33Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > It boggles my mind that someone would go to a crappy looking webpage and decide to click on ad links. I guess it is true what they say: one’s estimation of fellow humans diminishes a little every day. If they manage to get their stolen content indexed by search engines, then visitors may arrive there when searching for anything that would normally bring them here. Few of them might actually click on the ad banners, but the sheer number of views served is also part of the calculation used to determine ad revenue (that is, an ad that gets many thousand page views, plus one or two clicks, may still be profitable) ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/15 "2013-08-06T17:42:09Z")
But they can’t be doing anything wrong, they gave a citation for each article listing back to the Straight Dope. They’re just an aggregator, not thiefs. Right? _blink blink_ ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/16 "2013-08-06T18:05:41Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > But they can’t be doing anything wrong, they gave a citation for each article listing back to the Straight Dope. They’re just an aggregator, not thiefs. Right? _blink blink_ Aggregating info from one source has lots of issues… ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/17 "2013-08-07T00:36:58Z")
I’m looking at this blog’s entries. There are so many! Are they stealing every single thread or something? (They don’t seem to have stolen this thread yet. Now _that_’d be meta.) ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/18 "2013-08-07T01:42:55Z")
> [@EmilyG](#): > > (They don’t seem to have stolen this thread yet. Now _that_’d be meta.) Especially if they started posting on it pretending we stole their site. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/19 "2013-08-09T23:42:08Z")
The theft is still going on. ---
**Author:** ![Psychopants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Psychopants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Psychopants)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2013, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375/20 "2013-08-10T00:10:16Z")
There is no theft. Digital material posted on the Internet is public and permanent. Unless it’s copyrighted, it’s anyone’s and everyone’s to do with what they wish. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-content-theft/665375.md?page=2)