Righthaven and autoblogs? You care?

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matt3

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So you've got some autoblogs from way back when, do you bother doing anything considering the copyright troll jazz from Righthaven?

Discuss.
 


It's serious. They've very successful in obtaining significant settlements out of people ($5k range). An autoblog is a big risk because you can easily scoop up something that they'll sue you over.
 
Wow, just looked these guys up - what a bunch of douches.

I bet Anon target them for a DDOS soon. Although personally, I think a better tactic would be a mass, automated infringement of the items they are suing people for.
 
This seems like such an easy industry to get into. Just buy rights to a bunch of content, put the content in places that people often copy/scrape from, and then sue the shit out of them.


amateursurgeon said:
Wow, just looked these guys up - what a bunch of douches.

I bet Anon target them for a DDOS soon. Although personally, I think a better tactic would be a mass, automated infringement of the items they are suing people for.
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If I were RightHaven I would try to provoke people on 4chan to do this, so then you could sue all of the people doing mass, automated infringement.
 
cardine said:
This seems like such an easy industry to get into. Just buy rights to a bunch of content, put the content in places that people often copy/scrape from, and then sue the shit out of them.
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My thoughts exactly.

BRB, putting 98% of warriorforum out of business.
 
Is there a difference between autoblogs that scrape the entire post and autoblogs that scrape an excerpt (few sentences) and have a, "click here to read the full post" or "click here for the original" and link to the actual post from the actual site? Or you can get sued either way?
 
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