Posts Tagged ‘anonymouse’

workFRIENDLY: An Accidental Scraper

By Jonathan Bailey • Nov 9th, 2007 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

On the surface, workFRIENDLY is something of a novelty site.
The idea is pretty simple, you punch in a URL that you want to visit and workFRIENDLY pulls up the site in a format that resembles a Microsoft Word document (see Blog Herald on workFRIENDLY). The idea is that, if you use the site to [...]



Tip: Getting Around an IP Block

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 24th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Personal Experiences, Products

If you do enough work in dealing with plagiarists, it is bound to happen. A plagiarist, scraper or other ne’er-do-well, not wanting to deal with your accusations, will simply block your IP from visiting their site in hopes that you’ll think the site is down and go away.
It’s an amateurish move that is usually [...]