Grand Theft Content

I faced a weird situation some days ago. Some content from this blog was being used on another blog. No credit was given, no link was to our blog was made available. Anyone that read those lines would easily assume that the owner of the blog wrote it. To make things worst he edited parts of the texts that would point to us.

But… he forgot one link and that one link created a pingback and that pingback led me to his blog where I left a very nice comment on the blog post I wrote and he edited. Some minutes later he took both our posts from the blog.

I got some mixed feelings about it. On one hand I felt good… after all, our content was good enough for someone to take it and pretend it was his. On the other hand I felt awful because that was plain theft.

We work mostly on the flash game market, meaning, we want our games to spread, so we want our games to actually be stolen from site to site. The very nature of our success is measured that way by our partners, clients and competitors analyse this.

So? Where do we stand? What’s the difference?

The difference is credit. I just love that all our games travel the world, but I would hate to know that we wouldn’t be credited for creating it.

We are usually careful about content we use that is not ours. But now we will double check everything. I wouldn’t like to have someone thinking we would be stealing there content for our own good, especialy now that I know how it feels when that happens to our own content.

The image above is a fine example. A nice WP plugin for free pictures does all the work for us, so even better!

Vlad out!