Tynt’s Tracer reveals what content is being copied from your website and automatically adds an attribution link back to your original content if it is lifted from your site and pasted into an email, blog or website.

Trevor

Quick! What’s the best selling book of all time?

The Bible. Who’s got the copyright on that? No one. Name one publisher that can’t compete with selling the Bible. I’ll show you a publisher that doesn’t know the publishing business.

Here’s the real issue. Which is more important: Having an illusion, or perhaps more accurate delusion, of total and complete control over your work, or allowing as many people as possible to be exposed to it.

Oh, but someone else might profit from my work!

Wah! What that really means is someone else is smarter than you at playing the monetization game. Try to learn from that.

Sorry, this is a core, hot button issue for me. I’m vehemently opposed to IP law. The sad reality is that it benefits no one.

When the tide comes in, we all float higher.

So in reality… people who live and die on pageviews and simply cannot stomach their audience reading the full story in an RSS Reader do not need to get all huffy with the RSS Reader services, they need to re-evaluate the way they syndicate their content and take more responsibility over the control they have. In other words, they need to not publish full feeds. That’s a no brainer and is in no way Shyftr’s (or any other RSS Readers) business what motivates the publisher to make said choice… On that same token it is not the job of the aggregators to educate publishers on the technology the publishers are using, that responsibility lies with the publisher themselves (or, if they are so fortunate, some of their more educated peers). it is dangerous when those “educated peers” seem to misunderstand things and then a steady snowball of misinformation begins to roll down the internet hill.

For a blogger who offers an RSS feed to be upset about having feed subscribers…. I mean… It is as though someone were to misunderstand what a chain-saw was, and then after cutting off their hand they ignorantly bleed in bewildered shock and wonder why on Earth the evil chain-saw companies made the spinning thing so sharp and fast. Can you honestly pity that person? I can’t. Don’t offer the feed if you don’t want your users to subscribe to it. If you want to pigeon hole them into being able to only look at the feed in a specific “favored” reader… then why not just limit them to “your website” … stop offering the feed… I mean, put the chain-saw down.

I’ve been running my website http://www,junglephotos.com since 2000, and others. I make several $thousands per year from my websites, and I have constantly had to deal with people using my content without permission–taking photos (and bandwidth) or scraping text.

I don’t mind people using the material, so long as there is a link back and acknowledgment of the source. If there is no attribution or credit, why don’t we all just pass the time writing for Wikipedia?

I love my websites and my blogs, but I’m not in it just for the warm fuzzies of knowing I am contributing to the greater good. I want to make money and to be recognized and acknowledged! And that’s perfectly natural, isn’t it?