Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
Am Montag, 10. Mai 2004 22:16 schrieb Brion Vibber:
Ulrich
Fuchs wrote:
>The domain
http://www.wiki.produkt-mix2.de/
obviously copies content from
the german language Wikipedia and is not complying to
the GNU FDL at all.
Please contact them and let them know your concerns:
http://www.ihsl.de/impressum.htm
Contacting them because of not complying to the license could be a problem: I
don't know how the legal situation is if they just tunnel our content and
leave out the important bit - the content is not static; I cannot point them
to an article and say: here is a copyright violation, you do not comply to
the license, because the article is vanished.
We have a standard text for mirros not in comply and that always worked fine
whenever we had to use it. I'm not sure if we should use it in this case,
therefore I was asking if we have an easy implementable solution to block
their (and of course only their) access technically. In the end, what they're
doing is stealing bandwidth (they tunnel the article HTML and the images are
directly served by us) - apart from the copyright issues.
So, what, it's *simpler* to silently block them than to drop them a note
saying "hey, this seems a little unusual. It looks like you're tunneling
our side and adding advertisements to it, which isn't really cool.
You're welcome to mirror the content, of course, but you should serve
the pages from your own servers -- here's a link to the public database
dumps and the software we use to run it -- but make sure also to include
the appropriate information and backlinks to comply with the license.
Thanks!"
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)