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Write a few things. Register them with the copyright office. Then post them and wait for them to copy it. Now you can sue them for the max and strong-arm them to take it all down or face obvious legal fees and punishments over 100k.
When you say "my content", are you referring to content that you created, like a blog or online resource or are you referring to content your users created? Also is the information they're copying factual in nature (like a map or results of a calculation)? If it's factual in nature: It's not protected by copyright. If it's content your users created: You are not the copyright holder and cannot file a DMCA takedown no…
Compilations of facts can however be protected in the EU under the Database Directive.
Also, Terms of Use etc.
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The spammers & scrapers seem to have found their way around ReCaptcha. I made a simple spam filter for my website comment form that logs every submission, and a lot of the spam being sent (maybe 20%?) has a valid Google Recaptcha. I'm thinking of removing Recaptcha because simple keyword based filters have been more effective than ReCaptcha has been.
ReCaptcha and the original two-word based one are just Google using your visitors as 'mechanical turks' - by solving ReCaptcha et al, they are actually helping Google apply identification tags to images in streetview, and previously the Google books collection. An afternoons coding would get you an independent self-hosted Captcha system that would be just as effective (if not more so, as it's proprietary) and probabl…
As someone who has used both, absolutely 100% no in every way.
Google's captcha is so superior to what you would write, please don't tell people not to.
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The spammers & scrapers seem to have found their way around ReCaptcha. I made a simple spam filter for my website comment form that logs every submission, and a lot of the spam being sent (maybe 20%?) has a valid Google Recaptcha. I'm thinking of removing Recaptcha because simple keyword based filters have been more effective than ReCaptcha has been.
They're probably using https://2captcha.com/ They pay 50c per 2 hours to the workers, and API access costs 50c-$1 per 2000 solved captchas. I think most of the people doing this are in India, where US 50c for a couple hours translates well enough. (Completely naive about the truth of the situation though.)
Others have been able to beat reCaptcha too, though:
Write a few things. Register them with the copyright office. Then post them and wait for them to copy it. Now you can sue them for the max and strong-arm them to take it all down or face obvious legal fees and punishments over 100k.
Can you sue for monetary damages if you yourself were not making any money off the content? If anything the other site could be called a mirror, and saving our op money on the hosting cost by diverting traffic.. (although maybe not from scraping?)
That HN comment of yours? If it's sufficiently non-trivial, it's protected by copyright. Even though neither you nor HN directly make money of it. If someone scrapes HN and republishes that comment, you could go after them and demand they delete it.
These are all just things that will slow them down, but won't stop them. Make it cost them more money then they make using your data will be the only way to truly stop them.
If you haven't already, try adding some "trap streets" to your data. Map makers occasionally include streets that don't exist, so if a competitors map includes it too, it's clear that the competitor copied it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street I did that with an online marketing dictionary I wrote years ago, some of the definitions included strange usage examples that contained the names of several of my frie…
Now, this idea is not limited to maps: Google used trap search results to catch Microsoft using Internet Explorer to scrap Google search results: https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses...
If they're scraping content you created, they have already broken the copyright law. (They may not realize that. Make sure they do.)
Since 1989, in Berne countries you don't even have to post copyright notice for them to be in violation. So your first step would be to notify them that they've already broken the law, and invite them to cut it out.
Your second step would be to contact a lawyer.If the other site is not in a Berne country, that might complicate things. On the other hand, they may simply not be aware that they've broken the law.
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ReCaptcha and the original two-word based one are just Google using your visitors as 'mechanical turks' - by solving ReCaptcha et al, they are actually helping Google apply identification tags to images in streetview, and previously the Google books collection. An afternoons coding would get you an independent self-hosted Captcha system that would be just as effective (if not more so, as it's proprietary) and probabl…
> and probably less annoying to your visitors. As someone who has used both, absolutely 100% no in every way. Google's captcha is so superior to what you would write, please don't tell people not to.