This is what “Atlantas News” thinks I am, and who are Atlantas News? An unwanted site scraping my RSS feed representing my site as if I’m some kind of contributer to their site on, well, Atlanta News and they decided to add this fucking image on top of every scraped post of mine as some kind of banner…
Talk about shenanigans, So I’ve sent them a little email saying that this kind of misrepresentation is completely uncool and if they don’t do something about it, well… I’ll be one unhappy blogger, thats for sure.
Thanks for the heads up Maigh
FYI: Here is what I wrote to them…
Hello there,
It has come to my attention that you are aggregating my rss feed (http://www.gregorsmith.com/blog/) for your site and while a notification of this would have been nice, I feel I have to complain as a) My content is strictly my content, there is no wishy washy Creative Commons license applied to it, I only sumbit it to aggregating sites I wish to be aggregated by and b) I feel that the choice of image you have use at the start of every damn entry (http://atlantasnews.net/files/images/atlanta39.jpg) is totally unrepresentative of my site, my work and most of all me.
So all I ask is eaither you remove my feed from your site or at the very least, replace that image for something more representative… Scam City is merely a name, not my business…
Not as “jihad” like as I could have done, but it got the point across pretty quickly.
Comments
18 responses to “Big Sleazy”
Fuck, I’m on there too! How in the hell did this happen?
Actually, we, the atlbloggers, are all on there… what is this site?
It’s just a site that scrapes all the RSS feeds and republishes like original content, kinda crappy really
Yeah, it is … at least it doesn’t appear they’re getting any ad revenue for it. If anyone is going to make money off my content (good luck) then it had better be me!
I’m on there too although I am not syndicated on atlbloggers. I think this guy showed up at our bloggers drinking night at McCray’s.
Well, I’ve been removed, so all’s well ends well….
Bite my green felt ass…
Like Maigh and Greg, I’ve sent the assholes “operators” of AtlantasNews a delightful nastygram. I’m betting I’m not off their site in the next 72 hours and people have to get litigious.
My brother-in-law is on spead dial,…
I have been surpassed. Not sure whether to be happy or sad about that.
Is it me, or is this insanely odd that they ganked our content, and didn’t tell us? What the hell?
Um, I don’t know whether to be pissed, or flattered or both?!?! What should we do? I think that we should at least be getting credit AT A MINIMUM.
And Stimpy? What the fuck?!
sorry for the triple post; but dave, it looks like SOMEONE might be getting money from this:
http://atlantasnews.net/node/54594
I’m not on there. Guess I’m not as cool as I thought I was.
Weird that boba, you’ve been on the atlbloggers list as long as anyone…
I dunno how or why they picked the people they did, but as Seth said on his site, these kind of things need to be opt-in, not the other way around.
I agree. I would have done the same thing you guys did if I was there.
[…] Following suit with Maigh, Greg, Seth, and Tony, here is my request for removal from the feed-steeling atlantasnews.net. I have recently become aware that my site’s feed is being syndicated on your site. I never game permission for such syndication and would therefore like my feed removed effective immediately. […]
This has inspired my next WordPress plugin idea… a way to see which sites are pulling your feed, and if it’s a naughty naughty like Mr. Syndisnake, then return a feed with blank contents or a message saying, “Not so fast homeslice!”. I’ll let you WP peeps know if I actually get it working.
And to, duane, bastards… guess I spoke too fast!
Looks like I am there too and with a crazy image as well. http://atlantasnews.net/node/79395 Guess I will write my angry letter now too.
Syndication Massacre…
Here is my email to those pesky people at AtlantasNews.net. To Whom It May Concern, It has come to my attention that your site (AtlantasNews.net) is stealing the feed from my blog (Mr. P’body’s Place – http://www.mrpbody33.com/) without my permission…