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Video: Content Scraping and a New Way To Make Money Online
Late last night I received a video from a CN reader who has created a hot new infomercial about a new way to make money online. I’ve embedded the infomercial below and here’s some background information on the topic.
Over the past week, there has been quite the discussion about content and what can and can’t be used without permission. Most of the talk has been around the A.P. and their content policies. What I’d like to discuss today is the other discussion — taking full content and doing as one wishes with it. This includes posting it on other sites all the way to monetizing it as if it was their own with barely any attribution or links.
Fav.or.it opened their doors this week and Techcrunch’s Mike Butcher couldn’t get enough of how great an app it is. Former Techcrunch writer Duncan Riley took the opposite stand noting that Fav.or.it is basically taking full content from the source and generating revenue from it. Duncan notes, "…when did splogging become a business model again? It’s like a whole chunk of the world missed the memo that ripping peoples content off for your own commercial gain is immoral and wrong, no matter how well you flavor the end product."
Duncan also broke another story of Keith Teare (former Edgeio co-founder) who has created a set of sites that scrape other’s content. This set of sites has sparked a huge conversation on FriendFeed. Teare says he is just playing around with an idea and that he isn’t monetizing the content. Robert Scoble, who is normally ok with you stealing anything he does, isn’t ok with Teare reposting the content on FriendFeed (clearly FF is sacred ground!). Apparently Teare has changed his seriously content scrapers today to fall in line with what Riley and Scoble want.
This afternoon we learned that a blogger is threatening RSSMeme with legal action for scraping her content and using it in full without her permission.
Maybe now ya’all will realize why my feed for a buck idea is so perfect. None of these issues would ever come up again.
I called 1-800-content but no one answered - How can I order this program?
Allen,
I found your post via here:
http://www.techaddress.com/2008/06/19/video-content-scraping-and-a-new-way-to-make-money-online/
That splog post was a recommended “Our readers also like” post here:
http://www.inquisitr.com/1116/when-did-splogging-become-a-business-model-favorit/
I kid you not… Heh.
HAHAHAHA DOUG.
Now I know techaddress very well - you might wonder why. The guy who started TA started the same time I did with CN - he had a normal blog like mine for about six months. Then one day he changed it to the digg clone and scraper.
He sends trackbacks, etc - it’s horrible. He seemed like such a normal guy too.
To top it off, I am subscribed to CN via Google Reader, and yet tripped upon your post first through the link to that splog.
Yikes.
unbelievable product offered in this infomercial! ;-)
Hope no-one starts ripping off our content! We’re not even making money off it!!!
Wow! What an out and out lie!
You advertised a NEW way to make money online and all you did was sell me a dusty old copyright infringement scheme.
I WANT MY MONEY BACK!!!
Shameless plug:
At wildfeed.com we review and recommend content. When we find great content we provide a clickable link and share it with the world. Y’all stop by and post a link.
I kind of love it, and if I’m not mistaken Duncan Riley and TechCrunch and a number of other folks out there think it’s just fine to do the same thing with music that they’re complaining about aggregators doing with their writing. It’s lovely to watch, although I don’t even know if they see the irony.
it seems this funy guy is joking with everyone.
LMAO - that was a great video