5 Content Theft Myths
Over at The Blog Herald, Jonathan Bailey wrote about 5 content theft myths. I’ll admit… I’ve been getting a bit lazier when dealing with sploggers. I’m tired of chasing after their hosts, instead I’ve been sending letters to the registrars. In the comments Jonathan mentions contacting the advertisers - but unfortunately most of them use Adsense, and I have ZERO luck when dealing with Adsense. Literally every time I’ve sent a DMCA I’ve gotten back the lame “we see no infringement” letter. That is one reason I suspect Google loves spam - it is what made them rich.
France To Block P2P?
P2P is one of those issues that I used to be in the “well only criminals use it” bandwagon - but I have recently started using it for things like distributing scripts and programs and downloading kernels and linux ISOs. Apparently France is still in the “well only criminals use it” group. As I have said a million times, go after the unloaders - not the downloaders. I personally suspect less than 1% of the P2P users do any uploading/seeding of warez- and I suspect less than 1% of those users do it enough to cause any major issues.
Mark Cuban Wants ISPs To Block All P2P Traffic?
I personally can’t stand reading about Mark Cuban… it seems like every thing he says is 100% yuck. His rant about P2P is no different. Then again - you have to give the guy credit for being able to get publicity from major blogs and news sites all the time.
Syria Blocks Facebook?
Apparently Syria may be blocking Facebook. Hah, and many anti-American bloggers claim the US censors websites. At least the US doesn’t act like Syria, China, and North Korea by blocking their citizens from communicating with the rest of the world.
Massive Comment Spam Attack
A massive comment spam attack is underway. This blog as well as others, like Plagiarism Today, have been getting hit hard by the spammers. For a while I was getting close to 400-600 per day, but it has slowed to a more manageable 150-200 per day. Akismet has held up really nicely for me - all in all only 15 or so spams made it through - and 10 of those went to moderation (instead of being posted) - out of a total of 3000+ spams. That means less than .5% of them made it through. Not bad at all…
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November 24th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
YEa really ey’! What’s with the spam lately? Did somebody write another bot?
Akismet caught them all for me. A few went to moderation, and I thing it was just two that made it through, but they were deleted seconds after arrival to my notification.
I still can’t understand why they even bother. Seriously. Anybody who has a blog these days will have some sort of anti-spam running within it.
I think it’s a complete waste of time IMO.
November 24th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Kinda scared me a bit though - I’m working on a blog module for a content management system and it has me wondering how I’ll tackle the spam problem. Will probably wind up just hooking up to Akismet…