Comments on: Biggest Copyright Infringement in the World But Nobody Cares Enough http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/ Helping you learn more and do more with WordPress Fri, 24 May 2013 15:15:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By:   100 Essential Legal and Privacy Guides for Bloggers  by e-Justice Blog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-916841 Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:12:14 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-916841 [...] Biggest Copyright Infringement in the World But Nobody Cares Enough: This blogger writes about the apathy of copyright enforcement. [...]

]]> By: Response « Teresaouyu’s Weblog http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-900623 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:00:15 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-900623 [...] think “if it’s on the Internet, it’s free for the taking” and “who cares anyway”. (from http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares… ) Especially, from the article above, “in many countries, it is legal to share copied music (e.g. [...]

]]> By: LiquidStupid http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-750192 Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:15:03 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-750192 Well said Lorelle. Here is one of those retail dwelling shmoes, for the present, who does his job not because he is adequately paid, but instead recognizes the quiet need in people to be treated with genuine respect, even if they happen to be quite incensed about the poor quality of a product.

Yours is the sort of respect that is encouraging – so thank you for not holding back, or letting your hands slip from the wheel even though fatigue may take hold. It is ever a constant fight, but as people have value, so does this.

Yes, the name I chose is sarcastic.

]]> By: Spinning Spammers Steal Our Blog Content « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-728870 Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:05:35 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-728870 [...] Biggest Copyright Infringement in the World But Nobody Cares Enough [...]

]]> By: One Year Anniversary Review: Blogger’s Rights and the Risks of Blogging « Lorelle on WordPress http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-34473 Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:16:31 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-34473 [...] On the opposite side was the growing trend to consciously and unconsciously allow copyright infringement to be wide spread on the web. In “The Biggest Copyright Infringement in the World But Nobody Cares Enough”, I vented about the apathy regarding this and the growing apathy I see all over the country: I found a lot of comments on and about my recent articles series on What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content dealt with the issue of “if it’s on the Internet, it’s free for the taking” and “who cares anyway”. Pitiful apathy until I see comments like this above which just reinforces the apathy. Nobody cares. [...]

]]> By: Beth http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7308 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 18:25:34 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7308 I think we’ve battled the last month for the top spot in WordPress blogs-which to me is fun since our blogs offer completely different content. Unfortunately, when I joined a certain blogroll, my troubles began. I’ve been writing about stupid people from day one. It’s a peeve of mine. I even started a blogroll, Bloggers Against Stupid People-which no one joined. Then I found out why- a woman on the blogroll I had joined, decided she wanted to devote an entirely new blog to.. guess what? Stupid people. I know it’s petty, but, this was my idea and my writings for well over a year. I had to add a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License. It’s sad, really. No one even cares.

]]> By: Greg Balanko-Dickson http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7306 Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:11:19 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7306 Apathy and mediocrity are rampant in our society. I see it everywhere. personally, I reserve all rights to my material and say so on my website. I allow fair use (no more than 200 words) of my content with attribution.

]]> By: Maria http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7167 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 04:24:14 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7167 On my robots.txt file I have this code:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /img/
Disallow: /css/

These 3 lines tell all robots not to index the files on my img and css folders. You can add as many disallow commands as you need, but of course all evil robots will ignore them.

Haven’t gotten to excluding them in .htaccess – Although it’s an extra measure of security, it also fails with all the evil robots disguising their true identity.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7164 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 02:23:12 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7164 I sure wish you pitched in when the naysayers were blathering. It’s so frustrating, and yet a part of our “job”. Good for you. You are one of my heros for fighting the good fight! Thank you.

How did you set up the robots.txt or .htaccess to allow them to get content but not css and images? I’d love to see that piece of code. I think I remember, but it has been so long. I’ll have to do more research on this.

Thanks!

]]> By: Maria http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7160 Thu, 20 Apr 2006 01:25:34 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/04/19/biggest-copyright-infringement-in-the-world-but-nobody-cares-enough/#comment-7160 This is very opportune right on the day I’ve had to spend all my morning dealing with useless customer support operators, who consistently do ONLY what they need to do to get to the point where the problem is not theirs, but somebody else’s:

“Sorry… The connection looks good to the modem… Must be your router”
“Sorry… Our product should work with Mac browsers, but Mac browsers have many bugs which do not exist in windows versions” (this one actually made me LAUGH!)

I fiercely care about copyright infringement. I’m constantly looking for ways to stop it with my work, and it only frustrates me to see how fruitless and limited all existing resources are. Publicly expressing this usually gets me some nasty online insults from people I can only imagine make a livinng out of intellectual propety theft.

My thoughts on the Internet Archive are a little different, though. I suppose what they do is technically copyright infringement. However, unlike abominable offline browsing tools, the Internet Archive provides a clear, easy, and EFFECTIVE way to opt out (i.e. robots.txt).

When I first got a hit from their bot, I banned them from indexing my pages, but a few years later decided to let them index the HTML, excluding all CSS and images. I figured their archives could come in handy if one day I need to provide evidence that somebody has ripped me off.

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