a splog is scraping wordpress art blogs

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  jessicadoyle · Member · Dec 12, 2007 at 5:22 am

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  Is there a way to stop a splog from scraping various art blogs on WordPress.com? Could it’s IP be blocked globally? This is the splog in question:

  http://drawing.unix-fu.org/

  This splog seems to only be scraping wordpress.com Arts related blogs. All the links back to the original authors blogs are misspelled. They have no contact info.

  thanks

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  sulz · Member · Dec 12, 2007 at 5:25 am

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  a quick search would have shown there are plenty of threads about blog scraping. one such thread:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=4031&page&replies=31#post-143695

  this thread might be relevant as to what you can do about it:
  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17307&page&replies=24

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  jessicadoyle · Member · Dec 12, 2007 at 5:31 am

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  Thank you sulz. In my haste I did not search.
  I will read them and add over there hence marking this topic resolved.

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 12, 2007 at 5:42 am

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  The whole unix.fu network are scrapers; some people here have managed to contact the owner, who asserts that anyone publishing an RSS feed is giving permission to republish, which, as we all know, is a lie.

  But those people have not provided the other victims with that contact email, nor with the email for his host. Let’s hope they do so soon.