Comments on: Bitacle Back To Rip Your Blog Off

By: Bitacle | Fail Beta

Bitacle | Fail Beta — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:06:07 +0000

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By: Bitacle Back To Rip Your Blog Off « Stop bitacle.org

Bitacle Back To Rip Your Blog Off « Stop bitacle.org — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:41:44 +0000

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By: WordPress.com Blogs Feeds Scraped « Lorelle on WordPress

WordPress.com Blogs Feeds Scraped « Lorelle on WordPress — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 22:50:14 +0000

[...] of scrapers. Last year, many of us fought against the giant blog scraper and splog, Bitacle, which continues to scrap WordPress and WordPress.com blogs, unfortunately. Still, a united voice can carry a lot of weight. And almost two million bloggers on [...]

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Tue, 08 May 2007 20:26:30 +0000

Rojo are actually worse, linked to my old article

By: Andy Merrett

Andy Merrett — Wed, 02 May 2007 19:40:21 +0000

Not sure, Franky, but if it’s scraping full RSS feeds it can get them from any aggregator, so there’s no way to stop it if you choose to publish full feeds.

By: Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Wednesday Round-up: May 2, 2007

Blog News Watch » Blog Archive » Wednesday Round-up: May 2, 2007 — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:49:33 +0000

[...] Lorelle writes for Blog Herald and performs a valuable community service by alerting us to the evils of Bitacle and other scrapers… [...]

By: franky

franky — Wed, 02 May 2007 13:49:04 +0000

Doesn’t the Bitacle fetcher leave a referrer? And didn’t wordpress.com block Bitacle months ago already?

None of my sites is scraped by Bitacle (is Bad Behavior to blame for this?) otherwise I’d love to write a little Howto block Bitacle with htaccess.

I know, not hard to do, but it would be nice if everyone here could just copy&paste the htaccess rules, with correct Bitacle referrer and IP. I think that would really aid many BH readers.

Also, in many cases it helps to send a DMCA to the hoster of scraping/stealing webmaster. Hosting companies (in many countries) MUST take down sites after a DMCA complaint.

@ Angelo, yes Bitacle is in Spain and Spain has not adopted DMCA policies in the same way other countries have done.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Wed, 02 May 2007 07:04:40 +0000

But Darnell, I believe Bitacle is based in Spain, so they’re not likely to back down with C&D’s. Still, good for you you’re not being scraped, even by other scrapers. :)

Cheers,

By: Darnell Clayton

Darnell Clayton — Wed, 02 May 2007 02:12:42 +0000

Wow, someone is angry!

Well, for the record they do not seem to be messing with my blogs (which may be due to the fact that I’ve sent out more Cease and Desist orders, giving thieves the option of facing me in court or removing the content).

Thanks for the tip regarding this…I’ll keep an eye out for the future!