Wednesday February 08, 2012 1:58:28 pm (Pacific)

Read/Write Web: RSS Ripoff Merchants

Here’s a perspective on Content Theft from Read/Write Web:

“What would you do if someone was ripping your RSS feed off – that is, copying every single post into their website? And what would you think if some software companies actively encouraged this activity? I call these people RSS Ripoff Merchants. (a sidenote: I’m absolutely not talking about fellow bloggers who re-post an occasional post of mine – I’m specifically talking about sites that brazenly re-post everything and are doing it for commercial purposes).

I started off by laughing at it, but there’s a serious side too. Content has value and these Ripoff Merchants are completely glossing over that fact.”

Read more about RSS Ripoff Merchants.

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul is the CEO of Leveraged Promotion, a member of the Network Solutions Social Web Advisory Board, and Editor of Women Grow Business. Her website promotion company specializes in reputation management, and building traffic systems for business. You can find her on Google+ and Twitter.

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