Those Wordpress users interested in stopping sploggers and their ilk from scraping/leeching their content might like this plugin.
AntiLeech helps prevent content theft by sploggers.
AntiLeech does not prevent the splogger bots from accessing your site. It produces a fake set of content especially for them that includes links back to your site (and mine, too, ok?) and sends it only to them. When they steal this content, it appears online just like normal, except now you've turned the tables on them and have provided them with useless content.
I've been using it for a couple weeks now and am quite pleased. It detected the Pittsburgh News (not to be confused with Pittsburgh Bloggers) user agent and I have instructed it to deliver gibberish to that agent.
Funky Dung
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I have a feeling this site you're mentioning is operated by the same people who run phillysnews.com. They launched their Philly-focused site about six months ago and started using local feeds. Some they asked to list; others they just aggregated without the same courtesy.
It seems like a real low-effort way to grab content without giving much back for it. It's probably just one guy running a bunch of websites named "http://www.(your town's name)snews.com" with the help of a bunch automated tools (and a bunch of unsuspecting bloggers) doing the lion's share of the work for him.
I've found that locals in Philly have been able to get un-listed with a simple request, which means he's got some sense of decency hidden in there somewhere.
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Posted 03 Oct 2006 at 8:17 pm ¶- speaking of which, I just noticed the phillysnews.com site is no longer accessible (I know it was still up a few days ago), which could have to do with stolen feeds, or it might also have to do with the fact that the local newspaper establishment in Philly has been using the address http://www.phillynews.com for years. Not sure which. It could just be the server's down - who knows?
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Posted 03 Oct 2006 at 8:21 pm ¶Well, I like being able to (hopefully) deter any and all sploggers, not just pittsburghnews.
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