John Balestrieri wrote:
I released some free software this weekend and uploaded it to
VersionTracker & MacUpdate. This morning, I received two emails, one
from "Softtonic" and the other from "Softpedia" -- they are download
sites (one is European) and both added my software to their archives
and grabbed some images off my software webpage and stamped their
logo on it.
Just a question for those who've been down this road before: Is this
normal or standard practice? Are these sites reputable? ie., I'm OK
with VersionTracker and MacUpdate, which is why I chose to post
there, but if I only uploaded my software to one and not the other,
would VersionTracker or MacUpdate have automatically grabbed my
software listing from the other?
I've never uploaded anything to VersionTracker or MacUpdate before,
so I've not had to deal with this. My impulse is to have them pull it
down immediately, since I've no control over updating new versions,
etc.
The other thing you may want to pursue is the use of PAD files.
Most download sites use PAD files since it makes it easy to upload
information about your product and you only have to create the
information once in the PAD file.
VersionTracker and MacUpdate are the exceptions to the use of PAD
files which makes them a PITA. Generally I add my information to
VersionTracker and then wait for MacUpdate and a few other will
pick it up automatically. I then use a PAD file to upload to all
the other download sites out there.
You can read about the PAD file specification and get a program
called PADGen to help you create the PAD file at the following
URL.
http://www.padgen.org/
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