This is the Internet mate, the site owners of the sites I'm to be scraping use the same methods. If I was to cite that site it would be wrong anyway because they don't even own all the content.
If there is a financial gain, why sit back and let someone else gain from it? I know a guy that does the same with a lyrics site and makes roughly £14,000 a year in Adsense. It has to be done. On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Adam Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Yes I don't think this is the place to ask advise on illegal matters. > Scraping content from websites that you do not have permission from is > copyright infringement. The fact that you don't want to cite the original > source inidcates to me that you are building this site for some financial > gain - whether that is to get exposure, advertising revenue or other means. > > Respect the content owners, ask for their permission to use the content!! > > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Dorward" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 8:42 AM > Subject: Re: [WSG] Blockquote > > > James Jeffery wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the heads up guys. I know how to use blockquote, that's not an >>> issue, but I'm wondering if using cite would be worth it. >>> >>> I won't be storing the URL from the original page. If I did citing the >>> orig. page that could get me into a while lot of trouble if I am >>> mirroring/scraping/*stealing* quotes from certain sites. Hence why I do not >>> want to cite the original site. >>> >> >> I'm not sure I understand you correctly. Are you saying that your are >> infringing on copyright and are worried that citing the source will get you >> caught? If so, you're trying to solve the wrong problem and should be >> seeking to license the content or otherwise use it within the constraints of >> the law. >> >> >> -- >> David Dorward >> http://dorward.me.uk/ >> >> >> ******************************************************************* >> List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm >> Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm >> Help: [email protected] >> ******************************************************************* >> >> > > > ******************************************************************* > List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm > Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm > Help: [email protected] > ******************************************************************* > > ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [email protected] *******************************************************************
