Important Morning After Update:
I have completely edited out my vitriolic rant I wrote last night. But you can read it on Bitacle, the
site that has stolen over 100 posts from me. Perhaps the site is trying to be a reader, but the process hasn't been right. The online world is creepy; I can create content and lose complete control of it and it can remain forever out there.
After enjoying a nice bottle of Chateau Lafitte last night, there should have been finer things for me to do than come home after dinner and write an angry ranting blog post against someone (probably fronting for an entity) who is stealing things from me and taking advantage of me and others. After sleeping on it, I decided it was not the caliber of content I want on my site. If you are confused about this, it is all about copyright infringement.
Copyright infringement is an important issue and is becoming complicated in the global environment and digital world. If you want to know more about Bitacle, I've written about it with links on Bitacle Steals Content. Thanks to Amy Grahan who pulled out the information on the person in Spain who holds the site registration (I forgot to link to her in my rant last night) and who has written about it on her blog and in comments elsewhere, smart people with integrity have voluntarily worked to deal with skuzzbos who take unfair advantage of others. Blog Antagonist sleuthed to find and notify others who are having content stolen by this outfit as they are doing to MotherPie. The voluntary effort of people, like those who set up stopbitacle.org are examples of honorable people who work to make the online world a better place. Perhaps the outfit is making some bad mistakes and will correct it.
If you are interested in copyright issues, follow the work of Stanford Professo r Lawrence Lessig and support Creative Commons, the site he founded to work with copyright structures for the digital environment and the world we live in. These issues -- of content, use and ownership -- will be the huge issues in the future. I don't have time nor the deep pockets (this is a not-for-profit site) to fight against Bitacle in Spain or wherever. I still struggle to understand all the issues. Yeuda blogged the U.S. Copyright code into verse, FYI. The efforts of smart people who give time and attention to copyright and content ownership issues in our changing technological world are very worthy of commendation.
My passionate and angry rant last night against the entity and the person the site is registered under (I said my husband saw him on the Grassy Knoll, "you sleezy on the Dealy" and said he raped me... boy was I huffy and I meant the rape part metaphorically) should probably have contained legal terms like "alleged" and "probably" so I want it off of my site and am being responsible in taking it off here. Mother was right. One should think twice before speaking and bite one's tongue and sleep on things if they might be important. This is a good example, though, of the eternal and everlasting life of content online -- even though it is off here, it is still up there.
Enough. Enough now. The notice below, however, will remain to protect this site.
Note: If you are reading this on Bitacle, be aware that Bitacle is violating copyrights and using/stealing material without permission. The original site for this content is MotherPie.
I read your site daily and really enjoy what you have to say. You offer something important and take the time to do it, you should be angry about these thiefs.
It didn't sound like you though, and I was wondering if someone else had hacked your site and written it. (I know that wouldn't make sense). Well thanks for the post and explanation. It was a humorous and scary post at the same time. I suppose people can hack and write post on private sites. Haven't heard of that happening but I'm sure it does.
Posted by: janet | October 07, 2006 at 07:37 AM
I miss you! I love your blogs and I can't believe someone would steal something you work so hard for. Shame on them.
Have fun with you mom and dad!
Posted by: Mary | October 07, 2006 at 01:37 PM