I'm glad you like my content policy. I've had many people ask me why I don't just go ahead and use a CC license. Here's why. I want people who know me, and my site to copy my content for their own sites. I don't want people just searching the internet with a driftnet, looking for free content they can use to make their scraped content mashups.
So if you're a Universe Today reader, and you'd like to use my content for your astronomy club newsletter? Awesome, be my guest. You're a reader, you know my policy, we're cool.
But if you've got huge scraper bots running from hacked servers in Russia, seeking out creative content articles you can scoop up and convert into some kind of blackhat SEO scheme, I'd rather you didn't notice me.
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So if you're a Universe Today reader, and you'd like to use my content for your astronomy club newsletter? Awesome, be my guest. You're a reader, you know my policy, we're cool.
But if you've got huge scraper bots running from hacked servers in Russia, seeking out creative content articles you can scoop up and convert into some kind of blackhat SEO scheme, I'd rather you didn't notice me.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Fraser Cain.
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