Today's Fresh Blogs...

Published: May 9, 2007, 11:09 pm

Throughout the United States there are stories of vanished towns and villages that once had a place in history. For most of the population of the country these stories are not common knowledge. The history of some vanished towns and villages are contained in the archives of county and local history. The history of the United States and of the

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Litter Commentary

Published: May 1, 2007, 8:31 pm

Tags: Articles

I would like to cover a persistent problem that people in this country rarely address. That problem is littering. I agree that the problem of littering is not as grave an issue like the problems of crime, drugs, or diseases such as AIDS. People who commit crimes are showing disrespect for authority. They are also not respecting the rights of

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Breaking the 12th Commandment:FDT and the Abortion Lobbyist Story

Published: July 19, 2007, 1:13 am

Tags: News Articles

During his 1966 campaign for governor of California, Ronald Reagan purportedly established the so-called 11th Commandment: “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican.” A direct corollary–a 12th Commandment, if you will–could be stated as: “Thou shalt not speak ill of your candidate on your own blog.”

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Published: July 27, 2007, 1:38 pm

Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Dmca, Fair Use, Plagiarism

Perhaps the most difficult area of copyright law is fair use. Not only are the issues involved in fair use complicated and difficult to understand, but the answer is never satisfying. Since fair use can only be decided by a judge or jury and is handled on a case-by-case basis, there is no way to offer a definitive answer about what is or is not

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

DMCA Game Answer

Published: July 27, 2007, 10:50 am

Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates, Winner

First off, congratulations to Jeremy Steele for successfully guessing which notice was correct! Due to an appeal to the Plagiarism Today Supreme Court, namely my wife, Jeremy has been declared the winner of the contest and I’ve been ordered to pay a heavy fine for being evil. So Jeremy, congratulations. You earned it by figuring out a very

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Game: Find the Valid DMCA Notice

Published: July 26, 2007, 1:08 pm

Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Game, Legal, Notice And Takedow, Plagiarism, Stock Letters, Templates

Often times, on this site and elsewhere, we criticize hosts for their poor handling of the DMCA while chiding Webmasters and other laypeople who make mistakes while filing DMCA notices. Though the criticism of hosts is a little more fair since they were one of the parties pushing for the notice and takedown provision, the fact remains that the

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: +1

Five Practical Reasons for Fighting Plagiarism

Published: July 25, 2007, 12:43 pm

Tags: Prevention, Products, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Creative Commons, Google, Marketing, Plagiarism, Reuptation, Scraping, Search Engines, Seo

For most, being plagiarized is an inherently emotional experience. Finding out that someone else copied and claimed something that took hours to produce is bound to produce some negative feelings. This has lead some to wonder if fighting plagiarism is more about revenge than practicality. To some, it is better to simply forget about the

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

WordPress and Comment Spam

Published: July 24, 2007, 3:56 pm

Tags: Prevention, Personal Experiences, Articles, Akismet, Automattic, Comment Spam, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Plagiarism, Scraping, Spam, Spam Blogs, Wordpress

I would like to take an aside and delve into a related topic that has been on my mind for the past few months: Comment spam. Though it doesn’t have much to do with content theft, I have several reasons for wanting to cover this. First many of the RSS scrapers and spam bloggers also use this technique to supplement their work. Second, in some

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Published: July 23, 2007, 11:30 am

Tags: Podcast, Articles, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Copyright Law, Harry Potter, Iphone, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa

It’s Monday again and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. This week, we delve into this week’s latest copyright news with our usual mix of humor and sarcasm. This week’s topics include the following: RIAA takes a pair of major blows Harry Potter gets leaked The iPhone gets called a copyright

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

New Porn Group to Tackle Piracy

Published: July 20, 2007, 1:32 pm

Tags: Legal Issues, Articles, News, Adult Entertainment, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, File Sharing, Gapa, P2p, Piracy, Plagiarism, Porn

In December of last year, I wrote about how the adult entertainment industry was using “piracy” to its advantage and, despite adult content making up the bulk of file sharing, was a thriving industry. However, that may change soon. A new organization, The Global Anti-Piracy Agency (GAPA), has been founded by Sureflixx Digital

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Picking a Dead Man's Pocket

Published: July 19, 2007, 12:23 pm

Tags: Prevention, Legal Issues, Articles, Dmca, Archive, Caching, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Internet Archive, Meta Tags, Plagiarism, Robots Txt, Rss, Scraping, Spam, Spammers, Splogs

If reading this site and enduring the onslaught of content theft, plagiarism and scraping is making you think about packing up and shutting down your site, you might want to think again. These days, even death does not put an end to content theft. It merely opens up new avenues for it. As a recent article on Blue Hat SEO pointed out, nothing is

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Why the Cease and Desist Doesn't Work

Published: July 17, 2007, 1:21 pm

Tags: Legal Issues, Personal Experiences, Articles, Dmca, Cease And Desist, Content Theft, Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Mpaa, Plagiarism, Riaa, Social Networking

I’ve always felt that there is something to be said for solving a problem face to face. It seems, to me, that it is always best to resolve disagreements directly, when possible, and not involve outside parties. The cease and desist letter is the obvious way to handle plagiarism and content theft matters face to face. However, in a recent

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

Episode 15 - The Copyright 2.0 Show - MPAA Piracy?

Published: July 16, 2007, 2:05 pm

Tags: Podcast, Articles, Content Theft, Copyright Infringement, Google, Internet Radio, Mpaa, Netcast, Plagiarism, Podtcast, Prince, Riaa, Viacom

It’s Monday again and that means it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. As Chris and I stammer our way through another week of copyright news including the following stories: Net radio wins a reprieve against rate hikes Google takes a shot at Viacom Prince angers his label with a CD giveaway The MPAA is accused of

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

ladies home journal 08-2007

Published: July 28, 2007, 2:52 pm

Tags: Articles

enjoy. hugs, ellie Attached Images 1.jpg (381.4 KB) 2.jpg (422.0 KB) 3.jpg (405.3 KB) 4.jpg (406.7 KB) 5.jpg (402.3 KB) 6.jpg (373.8 KB)

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

New Feature: Top Commentators

Published: July 28, 2007, 6:31 pm

Tags: Housekeeping, Articles, Blog Comments, Commentators, Comments, Plugin, Wordpress, Wordpress Plugins

I’ve added a new feature to the side bar of this site, a Top Commentators list. The list, which counts all comments that a person has made over the past 90 days gives credit and a link to the top ten commentators during that time. Currently, Jeremy Steele and Patrick are tied for first at ten a piece, however, it is almost certainly

Comments (0)

Blog link Rating: 0

« Add Your Blog/Feed