Hey Baron, did you know?

[TradeViper]

I am not a techno dude, but I have found whole threads from this site posted on other sites, really really weird. I did not know that could be done

http://www.financevisor.com/default.aspx?g=posts&t=175046&p=19


The Ever Astounded VIPER

 

[Baron]

Yeah, unfortunately there are many scraper sites like financevisor that do nothing but steal content from other sites like ours.

 

[trader#21]

Two features(standard everywhere) request:
1. While quoting a post, it should automatically have a link to original post
2. "Search all threads by this user" option in a user's profile

 

[TraderZones]

Quote from Baron:

Yeah, unfortunately there are many scraper sites like financevisor that do nothing but steal content from other sites like ours.

Assuming this company is ni your country (eg, USA), You can get a court order to cease-and-desist. Maybe even get their website closed. This is copyrighted material, and you can sue for damages.

And in this modern world, you can probably sue in your hometown court, and if you (will obviously) win, there are parties that will go into the business/home of the owners in other cities, and impound their property to satisfy the damages award.

You can usually get the contact information from the site owner via doing a WhoIs.com on them. This is what I got on FinanceVisor.com. They are registered via GoDaddy and either owned by or website designed by Ipiya.com, and you can probably extract personal information via presentation of a "court" type letter

Registrant:
Web Master
1107 Fair Oaks Ave., #484
South Pasadena, California 91030
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: FINANCEVISOR.COM
Created on: 10-Nov-00
Expires on: 10-Nov-12
Last Updated on: 11-Nov-08

Administrative Contact:
Master, Web support@ipiya.com
1107 Fair Oaks Ave., #484
South Pasadena, California 91030
United States
6264630414 Fax --

Technical Contact:
Master, Web support@ipiya.com
1107 Fair Oaks Ave., #484
South Pasadena, California 91030
United States
6264630414 Fax --

Domain servers in listed order:
NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

 

[TradeViper]

TZ, if Baron sues and wins, does that mean we all get a piece of the pie

The Ever Looking For Profit VIPER

 

[trader#21]

Quote from trader#21:

Two features(standard everywhere) request:
1. While quoting a post, it should automatically have a link to original post
2. "Search all threads by this user" option in a user's profile

3. Search button with each thread for searching within a thread.