Most of the bloggers/forums use some third party service like FeedBurner to distribute RSS feeds. I also use Feedburner to deliver my new articles here to subscribed users. Now, what people with determined mind of copying do is simple read out the RSS feed using an automated tool and paste it on their own blog.

What do the original writer get in return? Nothing. And it is pretty difficult to catch these copiers and even more difficult to force them to bring down the copied content.

So, I thought that the best way out is to add a link back to my own website within the RSS feed so that i can at least gain a link when somebody blindly copies it!! [More]

Web scraping and copying is a technique by which an automated tool copies your blog/forum article and pastes it on thieve's site.

If you write a blog/forum, then you must be well aware of the fact that there are people around who just copy and paste your content on their website and you are not able to do anything about it. Copying somebody else's original work is an illegal activity but it is really difficult to track these thieves and force them to take down your original content. [More]