Show stolen web content with Autoblogger
The RSS syndication format is gaining rapid acceptance in the computing community. While blogs such as this one have always provided RSS content, the mainstream media are finally starting to catch on to the benefits RSS offers to the consumer.
While RSS will almost certainly kill email newsletters, it brings it's own problems to website owners. As I've already mentioned, dodgy internet outfits are already using the RSS medium to steal content.
To make things even worse, outfits like Autoblogger Pro even claim to provide a "complete SEO system" with their $99 software. Apparently, this application "plugs into" the popular Wordpress Blog/CMS system and:
"Uses RSS to syndicate posts from any blog, or any RSS/XML enabled site into your own, allowing you to get content rich sites with a lot of text the search engines love to spider. The software is so easy to use that literally within minutes you will have a content rich, and search engine friendly site, within minutes of starting with Autoblogger Pro."
According to the testimonials on the Autoblogger website, there are a number of these "new types of blogs" out there already using their product to show stolen content:
http://www.poptard.com/http://www.buyitordie.com/http://www.oblingo.com/http://www.fandangos.com/http://www.dontclickme.com/http://www.ps3vault.com/
So, this cheap piece of crapware allows you to steal entire articles from other websites and present them as your own? Is this ethical? Of course not. Sure, they provide a link back to the original article at the bottom but why would any visitor bother clicking on the link when the entire article (images included) is available right there and then?
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