From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 5 10:09:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46F8116A4CE for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from pilchuck.reedmedia.net (pilchuck.reedmedia.net [209.166.74.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AA9F43FE3 for ; Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from reed@reedmedia.net) Received: from reed by pilchuck.reedmedia.net with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1ASKOA-00020D-00; Fri, 05 Dec 2003 10:09:14 -0800 Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2003 10:09:14 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" To: Dan Langille In-Reply-To: <3FD05F2D.20453.4DC33728@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreshPorts fraud X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 18:09:35 -0000 On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Dan Langille wrote: > On a similar note, I just found today, by accident, defcon1.org is > also stealing my content. Compare this: > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf- > 8&q=%22correct+way+to+stop+httpd+is%22&btnG=Google+Search > > I have just emailed defconf.org to request removal. This is not the > first time I've had to do this. Over the past three or four years, I have various different websites republish my content without my permission. Some with my by-line and some without any attribution. When asked, they have politely removed my content. Sometimes, I wonder if some website makers (I don't use the term "editor") don't understand about reusing content. Another thing that is strange, is that an online media company that I worked for a couple years ago, put my by-line on a variety of articles that I never even wrote (or knew nothing about until a couple months ago). I think it may have accidently been done when they migrated some websites (and maybe when the article was missing a by-line it used the previous one since they forgot to blank it out). Jeremy C. Reed http://bsd.reedmedia.net/