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1. jessicadoyle
   Member
   Dec 12, 2007, 5:22 AM

   Is there a way to stop a splog from scraping various art blogs on WordPress.com? Could it's IP be blocked globally? This is the splog in question:

   http://drawing.unix-fu.org/

   This splog seems to only be scraping wordpress.com Arts related blogs. All the links back to the original authors blogs are misspelled. They have no contact info.

   thanks

2. sulz
   Member
   Dec 12, 2007, 5:25 AM

   a quick search would have shown there are plenty of threads about blog scraping. one such thread:
   http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=4031&page&replies=31#post-143695

   this thread might be relevant as to what you can do about it:
   http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17307&page&replies=24

3. jessicadoyle
   Member
   Dec 12, 2007, 5:31 AM

   Thank you sulz. In my haste I did not search.
   I will read them and add over there hence marking this topic resolved.

4. raincoaster
   Member
   Dec 12, 2007, 5:42 AM

   The whole unix.fu network are scrapers; some people here have managed to contact the owner, who asserts that anyone publishing an RSS feed is giving permission to republish, which, as we all know, is a lie.

   But those people have not provided the other victims with that contact email, nor with the email for his host. Let's hope they do so soon.

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