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Old 07-18-2008, 06:04 PM
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Default Re: Legal Issues with Scraped Content?

UPDATE:

After a phone call with AOL's lawyer (I was using one of their feeds) all they're asking is that I delete the posts that have their content, and like mentioned above, the images they have licenses to show and I don't. Once I do that, the whole thing will be dropped.

Since AOL has deep pockets and stands to gain something by smashing a fly with a hammer to make an example of a small blog like mine, I've decided to just go ahead and comply this time.

Domains by proxy didn't mention a fine - and they better not.

Anyway, so I can afford to lose them because I was scraping several different blogs in the same niche. I guess I should seriously look into one of those plugins that rewrite all your blog posts so this doesn't happen again because going through scraped blog posts that are a year old, thousands of them, is a pain in the ass.

Any recommendations on a wordpress rewrite plugin?
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