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I asked this on the TC comments, but do you have to own the Ning blog you want to copy to Posterous? If not, and I can take anyone's Ning content and use it as
by malloreon 16y ago
I asked this on the TC comments, but do you have to own the Ning blog you want to copy to Posterous?
If not, and I can take anyone's Ning content and use it as my own, that's a big problem.
- houseabsolute 16y agoYou can already do that with nothing more than a simple wget + sendmail script.
- thingie 16y agoYou can take any content published on the web and use it as your own… Sure, it's a very good idea to have some kind of verification (like "post this code on the site"? some kind of email verification? or at least send a mail to some contact on the copied site to inform the legitimate owner?), but still… you can just use copy&paste anyway. People are very skilled in it.
- zFlix 16y agoIf this is the case, why doesn't Posterous just copy all the Ning blogs and say "hey! your already here!"?
- houseabsolute 16y agoInteresting idea, but I'm guessing users wouldn't really like that very much.
- tlrobinson 16y agoBecause it's copyrighted? I assume the parent comment was referring to the technical feasibility of reproducing content, not the legality.
- thingie 16y agoBecause someone would, very likely, sue them?
- robryan 16y agoEasy fix to this would just be to get them to make a new blog entry with some keyword to indicate ownership.