Comments on: Attributor: Track Your Content Across The Web

By: Bush Mackel

Bush Mackel — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:50:16 +0000

Woah. This looks like a solid product Mr. Brown, as always good review. Gonna head over soon to check it out. *nod*

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By: teeni

teeni — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:57:01 +0000

YAY! I think a lot of us have been waiting to see something like this come out! As usual, you are first on the scene to report it back to us. Nice job!
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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:20:08 +0000

@Bush:
I think this will be a great service. Associated Press and Reuters are already part of their client list

@teeni:
This should solve the headache of manually tracking down splogs hehe

By: John Motson

John Motson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:29:04 +0000

Wow man, that is an awesome product. The folks that thought it up will be earning big money in no time.

I am glad they made it because copy cats suck…

Incidentally I keep getting auto comments from those autoblog sites… I just tag them as spam, should I be doing something more ? Like blocking their IP? They do link back to me, so those are free links back to my blog.

I am new to blogging :).

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By: Dan Anton

Dan Anton — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:53:52 +0000

What an extremely useful program/post. As I have a site that utilizes others content it is nice to see who uses the content I display and if they link back or not. Really hope this works as good as it sounds. Thx

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 22:54:29 +0000

@John:
I get those too. Akismet usually catches all of them. If any do get through, I just mark them as spam. If you’re interested in banning the ip, there’s a plugin called WP-Ban

@Dan:
I agree. If it performs properly, it will be a big help for all of us

By: Keith Dsouza

Keith Dsouza — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:20:08 +0000

This looks like a very good product to track those sploggers. It should be affordable to smaller bloggers who can then make use of this really useful product.

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:24:28 +0000

@Keith:
I agree with that buddy. I wonder how the pricing scheme will look like once it’s officially launched.

By: turtie

turtie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 03:39:22 +0000

Great app. Earlier this month, someone copied a tutorial I had written and posted it on his site. He even linked the images and was leeching from my server! This is a great way to protect content, something that has always concerned me.

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:03:24 +0000

@turtie:
Ouch. That’s a leech alright. I hope you got the site to take down your content.

By: AntiBarbie

AntiBarbie — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:01:11 +0000

wow, Sploggers beware! What a great product!

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:21:09 +0000

@AntiBarbie:
Splogs should share their revenue with the content’s creators hehe

By: Shashank

Shashank — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 05:38:35 +0000

Sounds like a cool service but the majority of spblogs are rss aggregators which have no admin contact.

recently i found a site which has copied my whole content with my adsense ads on it what a fool.. thank God that google has “allowed sites”

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:03:38 +0000

@Shashank:
Copied your ads too? Haha now that’s crazy. You’re right about Google’s Allowed Sites feature. At least it’s something

By: Ashfame

Ashfame — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:35:08 +0000

This seems promising to me. Lets see how it goes. Thanks for sharing!

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 14:50:00 +0000

@Ashfame:
You’re welcome buddy

By: Ashish Mohta

Ashish Mohta — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 15:47:17 +0000

Its a good service indeed. But this will can open up a war.

I can make an exact copy of another post with I will change the style of writing and Images and produce it much better.

Now I know you wrote that content but I will use this service which probably you are also using and Then put a complain and that You copied the whole thing.

What would you do ?

Unless you get an exact copy , a word to word copy it will not be that effective. Moreover Sploggers are becoming smart these days. They would steal Your ideas. Change here and there and post iit.

They are rare but They are the main threat. This service can only track those people out and trust me they will already be panalized by google

Just My opinion and no offenses !

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 17:20:28 +0000

@Ashish:
That’s true. I agree that the splogs are the biggest threat. Your opinions are always welcome and valuable buddy

By: Jos

Jos — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:37:46 +0000

There is another side to this.. We just had a nasty case over here in the Netherlands, where a poor blogger got a serious claim for quoting a large section of a news paper article more than three years ago. It was an article about a disease the blogger was suffering herself. The journalist of the original newspaper article had signed up with one of these new companies that are making big money by hunting down ‘copy cats’. It is likely that software like this will be intensively used by these sharks. In our copyrights laws dating from, let’s say, 1912, there is nothing mentioned about quotation rights on blogs, of course. The claims so far are all precisely high enough to allow them to make money - and low enough to make the victims pay (as they are less than what a lawyer would cost to the defence)…

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By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:06:09 +0000

@Jos:
That’s nasty. I think that “fair use” will be refined over time.