Meet Cyveillancebot

gulker writes "A rant about making a new 'acquaintance'... Googlebot is like the UPS driver who comes to the door in a uniform, and will happily show you his ID and business card: Cyveillancebot is like a coarse, unshaven, itchy guy with his hat pulled down lurking near your half-open bedroom window. This after Cyveillance defeats a 'protection mechanism' - robots.txt - and grabs 155 copyrighted files from my Web server, which files it will presumably share with others, for a profit..."

Comments

Re:Saddam, Cyveillance, etc. etc.

[gulker]

The point isn't that I'm shocked to see material downloaded from a public Web site... the point is that Cyveillance brags about how it protects copyright: their PR placed a Businesweek piece about how they had forced a site that was using Washington Post content to pay up.

Cyveillance is basically reselling content from thousands of Web sites - original thinking, research and writing, that is not theirs... they are exactly what they claim to protect the corporate copyright owners from - they basically rip off work, including copyrighted material, and resell it.

Good scam, they make a ton of money according to their press releases, but a scam, nevertheless.

Re:Cyveillance in a nutshell

[mdielmann]

The ironic part is, they may well download material copyrighted by the web host, protected by a digital notice of the unacceptability of doing so...sounds like these guys want to play with the DMCA...