Thanks.
Robert

Not only do these people have my old blog – a blog that I dont’ even have anymore with my picture on it, but they also have me linked to a blog that’s not even mine.

on bitacle.org today, i found re-publications of my livejournal entries–entries that i would have preferred to remain private.

they had been on “private” mode for months now, and hoping to thwart the re-publication at its root, i went so far as to delete my entries; but like you said, it’s no use.

the re-publication of my entries is a serious violation of my privacy, and i hope bitacle.org is shut down soon.

That being said…

Google = Search Engine (Google is a search engine)
All Search Engines != Google (All search engines are not Google)

Bitacle.org is a search engine. Do I like them? NO… Do i see any need what-so-ever for their existence, NOOOOOO. But they ARE a search engine… they are just a worthless shi**y one, thats all.

Thanks for sharing!

Peanut: If you go to Bitacle and search for your blog in Aggregates it will bring up a list of links to your posts. Unlike other feed readers, where these links take you directly to your blog, these links take you to the copies of your posts on Bitacle’s server. Not only that, but Bitacle has a comment feature at the bottom of these posts. No need for anyone to go to your blog, and in fact some people may think that this IS your blog. In addition, on their main page is a Flikr box, with an image in it. Click on this. It takes you to a copy of an image uploaded to Flikr on Bitacle’s server. Stolen. Attribution to author or not, if you did not seek and gain permission to place text or images belonging to someone else of your website it is copyright violation. Very simply speaking, its like me taking the feed of blogs I receive through Bloglines and publishing the whole lot on my own website, with my own (different) copyright licence.

Outlaw: Yes, I can provide proof. No, I wont publish this information.

Sure, you deserve the best insults for running this site, but can’t I get a little something Bitacle? Aren’t I at least an ass? Can’t I get some of these cool Spanish-language insults? I feel left out.

I’m kidding of course. But it really is telling that Bitacle would do something like this. It says a lot about their personality and their capability in defending their position. If they had a legitimate argument, I’m sure we would have heard it by now.

More than that, I think it’s a sign of frustration though. Bitacle has been without any financial backing for a long time, they host their own servers and their own connection, both at great costs. Their site has not been taken up like they had hoped (who would want to use it), the backlash is never-ending and now the site runs incredibly slow.

They’re frustrated because they are losing. Slowly, but surely, they are losing. We might not be able to simply DMCA them off the face of the earth, but they are bleeding to death.

Of course, that was probably the case BEFORE they lost their Adsense account (low usage and an expensive setup do not make a happy couple), but I’m sure that losing their ad revenue didn’t help things.

Eventually, Bitacle will blip off the face of the earth, though it might take some time. I think this might be one of the early warning signs of that.

After all, they’ve been so quiet for so long, why reemerge now? I think the answer is obvious, you’re getting to them.

Dear reader,
Please look carefully at the web address in the URL field of your browser. It should read ‘http://romanedirisinghe.com‘. In case you see a web address containing the word ‘bitacle’ or ‘bitacle.org’, you…

Couldn’t agree more. I do it nowhere but on Google.

Besides, the Gmail logo isn’t making Bitacle any cash and isn’t a part of their scraping. It’s an unrelated feature. No reason for Google to be upset about that…

like PT stated, it’s not over yet, and I think bloggers should
start (re)thinking about the way their content’s being published, and about any measures to be taken to prevent easy scraping of said content.. (not easy, I’ve been changing my feed layout and using some WP plugins, hopefully that’s working – maybe another topic for this site?)

my 5cents..