[wp-forums] Content Theft on the Forums

[James Huff]

So, this has been bugging me for a while, but what do we do about content theft on the forums?  I mean, ripping the majority of an existing article that you don't own and then posting it as a response?

User t-p seems to enjoy ripping most of my troubleshooting articles posted at weblogtoolscollection.com.  When I rip something, I always cite the source.  As you can see from the examples below, I have exercised my abilities to edit t-p's responses with blockquotes and the source.

Please keep in mind that these are just a sample from this week and none of the following examples were cited.  They were just ripped and posted verbatim.  The blockquotes and source were added later by myself:

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blog-and-admin-totally-lost?replies=5#post-1754458
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-i-have-crashed-my-site?replies=2#post-1754210
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-moving-wordpress?replies=7#post-1741602
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-update-i-cant-get-to-dashboard?replies=2#post-1741610

Now, I don't care when we rip each other's forum responses, but ripping from elsewhere without at least a citation is content theft.

I suppose I should just email t-p instead of stalking and editing, but I wanted to run it by you guys/gals first.

Pretend I'm not "one of you," just a member who sees his published copyrighted content being reproduced on the forums without his expressed permission.


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James Huff
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