Posts Tagged ‘content stealers’
June 20th, 2011 | 
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Why do people online feel that it is okay to snag (steal) content from other people’s web sites, blogs, newsletters, social media postings, etc? Didn’t your momma ever teach you that stealing is wrong?
When you come across content online (text or images) that is NOT yours…you do NOT have the right to take it and use it on your own sites, blogs or newsletters. If you are not the author or original poster of that information/images, it is not YOURS to do with as you want. Stealing is WRONG and stealing is ILLEGAL and that includes stealing things from others online!!!
I am really getting tired of people who have been caught stealing content online saying that “They didn’t know any better and they didn’t know that they couldn’t use it.” Who are you kidding? Would you go over to your neighbors house (one that you didn’t know) and borrow their lawn mower without asking? Would you go down the street to the local store and walk out with a candy bar without paying for it? Of course not…because it would be considered STEALING!
When you come across something online that you would like to use you need to ASK the original author for permission. The only time you don’t is if you are posting an article for an article data base site onto your site and even then…you have to include the original Author’s resource box with live links with your posting of that article.
The internet is not a Free-For-All…you can not run around online “stealing” material and images that don’t belong to you! Remember…you wouldn’t like it if someone took your material and used it so please don’t do it to others!
Well folks…that is my RANT and TIP for today. Content & Image stealing is NOT a good thing!
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