http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/01/19/the-top-ten-sources-debate-continues/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Thu, 04 Dec 2008 04:18:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/01/19/the-top-ten-sources-debate-continues/#comment-80562 Is Robert Scoble stealing or marketing? » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Sun, 05 Nov 2006 19:09:59 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/index.php/2006/01/19/the-top-ten-sources-debate-continues/#comment-80562 [...] For example, taking all of someone’s feed and putting it on a website and then selling ads around it is clearly wrong, it seems to me. This is called “scraping,” and it is flat-out stealing. Then there’s taking someone’s full feed and putting it on a site but not selling ads around it, and pointing people to the originating blog, which is kind of what Top Ten Sources got in trouble for awhile back (more on that here). That’s in kind of a grey area. [...] [...] For example, taking all of someone’s feed and putting it on a website and then selling ads around it is clearly wrong, it seems to me. This is called “scraping,” and it is flat-out stealing. Then there’s taking someone’s full feed and putting it on a site but not selling ads around it, and pointing people to the originating blog, which is kind of what Top Ten Sources got in trouble for awhile back (more on that here). That’s in kind of a grey area. [...]

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