Author Topic: The "Stealing from Other Sites Rule" (Read 5919 times)

Matt · « **on:** February 06, 2003, 05:39:44 PM »

The Rule.

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Cutting and pasting content from other websites and posting it in our Forums is a BANNABLE offense. It's stealing, whether you give credit to those sites or not. Websites live and breathe on advertising revenue, and when you steal their content, they don't get the hits, so they don't get paid. I've already banned a few repeat offenders, but we will now start banning ANYONE who steals content from other sites, unless you can prove that you had permission.

You can link to web pages all you want. What you can't do is paste blocks of text, stream pictures from their webspace, or link directly to their media (of any type). If you want to direct people to another site's media, make a link to the webpage on which they can find links to the media. You may post pictures from another website provided they are stored on your own personal webspace and that you provide a link and full credit to the place where you got them.

And to clarify, this is NOT a new rule. The rules have always stated quite clearly that reposting copyrighted information is bannable, we will simply be enforcing this rule more strictly now.

Have a nice Day!

The Question
Is it really stealing if you give a source?

I mean all the (reliable) websites for gaming source thier news from wherever they get it, and wouldn't this be the same thing?

RickPowers · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2003, 05:55:00 PM »

Re-read the rule, Matt. Cutting and Pasting is PLAGARISM. It doesn't matter if you source them or not, you STOLE their words. All the major websites re-write the story, even if they source them. And as the rule very clearly states, it's VISITING that site that gives them ad revenue, and when you take their work in its entirety and post it elsewhere, even if you source them, they get NO MONEY. Plus, if the site is copyrighted (as Planet GameCube is), then it's also against the law.

There are websites out there that cut and paste news onto their own sites, and then "source" the site they stole it from. There are many sites that do this to us, and we are very aggressive about having them remove our content. Paraphrase what they wrote, link to them, but don't just take what they wrote.

Matt · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2003, 09:55:03 AM »

Oh, so if i were to put news on the forums that was paraphrased and in my own words, that would be allowed, right?

RickPowers · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2003, 10:02:50 AM »

Exactly.

Chrono · « **Reply #4 on:** February 07, 2003, 02:03:41 PM »

So that goes for PGC content as well? Or is it a different story because these are PGC's forums?

madcow · « **Reply #5 on:** February 07, 2003, 07:31:10 PM »

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Originally posted by: Chrono
So that goes for PGC content as well? Or is it a different story because these are PGC's forums?

Good Question.

RickPowers · « **Reply #6 on:** February 07, 2003, 10:09:15 PM »

It's OK for you to cut and paste PGC content into the PGC Forums ONLY. Same goes for linking images.

Chrono · « **Reply #7 on:** February 08, 2003, 06:40:57 PM »

K, thanks for clearin that up!

yeg0 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 24, 2003, 04:36:53 PM »

Would a short synopses and a link be ok?

For example:

IGN Cube reported that Nintendo will release a the Gameboy Advanced SP
Click here to read the story.

MikeHrusecky · « **Reply #9 on:** February 25, 2003, 02:07:19 AM »

That's perfectly fine.

News:

Author Topic: The "Stealing from Other Sites Rule" (Read 5919 times)