I was able to contact most of the sites who were using my material, but one group eluded me. A bunch of sites with different names—but seemingly run by the same person (listed only as DME)—had no contact info, so I have resorted to posting this childish rant with the purpose of hopefully shaming the person in charge of those sites into complying. I included below a sample screenshot of a DME site that has been using my feed without permission. (If you're reading this post on one of those sites, it probably looks like a Russian nesting doll right now.) Anyway, I'd kindly appreciate it if you stopped tooking from me (or at least asked my permission in the future).
(Again, as I've said before, I'm really naive when it comes to technology and whatnot, so I don't know if this kind of shit is standard operating procedure when it comes to blogging. It's probably legal, for all I know. I just say all this as a common courtesy kind of thing: Ask my permission before posting my shit—or, at the very least, credit me and link to my site.)
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I thought you would find this humorous/depressing.
http://thehappyharbor.com/stop-stealing-from-me/
Ok, so I looked at those sites again. They do link to my page at the bottom of the posts, so I guess I should have researched more before writing the angry post. It does still annoy me, however, that google searches for my posts will bring up these other sites before mine. That's just wrong. I guess I'll just shorten my post feeds, making sure that folks will have to click on the links to my site. Still, not asking me before including my feed--super dicked up. I'm mostly perturbed at the lack of common courtesy.
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