OptionsNo More RSS Feeds on WordPress.com
I guess folks at WordPress.com start talking about copyright violation only when it hits home. When we cried foul about WordPress themers ripping our work and calling it their own, no one cared except Thomas (and Lorelle).
The reality is, you can’t stop people from stealing content or code, it pinches those of us on the receiving end and it sucks. Google can de-index a few sites, but many more will pop-up.
Although Google is the search engine leader, how many sites will Google de-index without the worry of competition like Yahoo! returning more search results than Google? How do you think that will impact Google’s bottom line?
While I do not see an immediate solution to this threat, blocking RSS feeds from 2 million bloggers would be absurd, unless the percentage of users affected grows significantly, and I mean significantly!
Two ways to tell if your blog is affected, 1) search for a keyword that you know you use a lot that is unique to your blog on Google and sift through the results to see if you content is posted on another site and 2) use Copyscape to find out if your content is used elsewhere.
Are you actually proposing that wordpress.com removes the feeds from all of its blogs? I’m just trying to figure out how your title relates to the rest of your rant, because I haven’t heard of anyone actually suggesting taking such a drastic action.
August 11th, 2007 at 2:38 am
@ Jim
I am not suggesting they do, but if I remember right, if you are hosted with a free account, you are not able to tweak your php and would be left vulnerable with your blog feeds! And if significant number of folks have their feeds scrapped, and they are unable to tweak and manage their feeds or blog (which is now a paid service), there will be no choice but to block the feeds of the affected. Can you think of another way to tackle it?
August 11th, 2007 at 7:54 am
Great info, thank you
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February 12th, 2008 at 8:44 am