There are like hundreds of these cloning scams. Maybe we could implement
some kind of watermarking to blacklist IPs that do the cloning ?

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote:

> The "blog" at <http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk>, which is hosted in your IP
> space, is a copy of Planet Debian <http://planet.debian.org>, apparently
> intended to gain keyword advertising revenue.
>
> Planet Debian aggregates a large number of blogs, including mine
> (http://womble.decadent.org.uk/blog - latest entry copied as
>
> http://www.rossbeazley.co.uk/ben-hutchings-debian-kernel-team-at-linux-plumbers-conference/open-source/).
>  Copyright in each of these blogs remains with their authors.  While Planet
> Debian has permission to copy each of them, the site owner (presumably Ross
> Beazley) does not.
>
> Since there are no contact details for the site, I have no way of
> directly demanding the site owner to cease this copyright infringement.
> Therefore, please either pass on this demand or suspend hosting of
> www.rossbeazley.co.uk until it is no longer infringing.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
>

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