Reuters to go after infringers
p2pnet.net News:- Reuters says it’s going to use real-time search and filter software developed in Norway to find Internet sites which infringe Reuters copyrights.
The company, FAST (Fast Search & Transfer), will use its FAST ESP as a search derivative application to identify and log Reuters content on the Internet, it says.
“This is new for us,” company spokesman Peter Gorman told p2pnet, explaining that until now, FAST software has been used mainly for company specific searches.
Reuters will probably go after sites that post whole articles, or portions or paragraphs, without specific permission, which will be bad news for thousands of Net sites which routinely cut-and-paste its stories, often with minimal or no reference to the source.
With the current interest in filter technology, we asked Gorman if FASTÂ might end up trying to identify file sharers.
“I’m not sure if our technology could be used by the recording industry,” he told p2pnet, “but the flexibilty of our search platform enables organizations to use it in innovatove applications. For example, a police force in Asia currently uses our technology for tracking pedophiles.”
FAST ESP will be initially deploy towards the end of April with a full launch scheduled for the summer.
p2pnet has asked Reuters UK to say exactly what it’ll be looking for, and how it’ll deal with offending sites.
Watch this space.
March 24th, 2004 at 9:12 pm
looks like your site could be in for a rough ride….
I always wondered how it was ok for you to basically reprint all of these other indivs/orgs stories without permission.
March 25th, 2004 at 5:00 am
I think this is nuts. I signed up for abc’s rss feed and had to promise not to use things without permission. I use parts of reuters stuff on my own site, always hyperlinkng to it, but on the basis of this new tactic, if I could speak to the Reuters people I would tell them where to go.
This is alarming, especially if others sites like Reuters do the same thing.
Please keep updating this.
March 25th, 2004 at 1:36 pm
The Internet is for sharing of information. I would like to suggest that Reuters stick to paper and ink if they don’t like it. What a load of crap.
March 25th, 2004 at 4:55 pm
“The Internet is for sharing of information. I would like to suggest that Reuters stick to paper and ink if they don’t like it. What a load of crap.”
This is the exact kind of attitude the RIAA et al love to qoute in front of judges saying look at the prevailing attitude of disrespect for IP etc., whether or not you meant it like that or not, it comes of as rash, uneducated and disrespectful.
March 25th, 2004 at 4:59 pm
Go to Reuters contact page, then you can tell them where to go, they’ll probably first off want to go to your site and catalogue all of your infringements….moron. IANAL and neither are you, think before you speak, you do more of a diservice to unfettered info sharing than 10 RIAAs combined.
P2P biggest problems are the little kiddie mouthpieces who give the RIAA and the like ammo for the cannons of BS.
March 25th, 2004 at 5:31 pm
Haven’t you heard of intellectual property rights…..Reuters has every right to go after people using their content without a license.
What site did you say you are from?
March 25th, 2004 at 5:53 pm
IP violates human rights
March 25th, 2004 at 6:03 pm
i think Jefferson would agree the original copyrights IP patents is saying once people can get ahold of it you can non longer control it. its against human nature to try hold a idea and not share it or try to profit off it in monetary ways especially when it’s large corporations using the violence of the state to enforce it. people can look beyond these soulless system. The multitudes who use p2p speak for themselves people have embraced sharing over trading. This is part of the anti-capitalist movement just like opensource.
We are learning how to empower ourselves from the bottom up in decentralized ways and the imperialist state system and the sell-outs who have been co-opted by it will use all there violent repressive tactics to try and put us in their box but they will never win. people will always survive past these entities of control and show great mass resistance to the domination.
March 25th, 2004 at 6:41 pm
A hell of a lot of sites grab p2pnet articles and post them as written. Sometimes they give us credit. Sometimes they don’t. We only re-print entire articles from sites we know don’t mind, and we always credit and link to them.
But we NEVER use entire wire service (ie, Reuters) articles. We excerpt from them and put references to the source throughout the story. Cheers! Jon
March 25th, 2004 at 7:07 pm
Spoken like a true RIAA infilTRAITOR.
The “little kiddies” gave you away.
This site is cool and always up-to-date and people should be aware of the dirty pool being played by not only the RIAA but now Reuters.
March 25th, 2004 at 8:14 pm
LOL, you’re jokes and most likely have a large collection of illgotten files
March 25th, 2004 at 8:16 pm
You missed his point idiot, your rhetoric is just as bad and/or more harmful to the p2p movement, as illustrated by your highly intelligent response.
Get with it, be part of the solution not the problem as he was trying to point out. Instead of threatening and whining, get involved.
March 25th, 2004 at 8:18 pm
more rhetoric in the same vien as the RIAA….thats why he said little kiddies, your level of intellect belies your meager age and intelligence
March 25th, 2004 at 8:21 pm
its not the idea moron, but the original work that went into creating it, gah they’ll never learn
do you even know what a derivative work IS?!?!?!
GO read the GNU Linux page explaination of deriviative works and educate yourself.
March 25th, 2004 at 8:25 pm
good to hear, so if you reference you’re ok.
March 26th, 2004 at 5:43 am
Nice to see you use archiac words, Mr. RIAA. Illgotten. LOL. Btw, it’s ill gotten. Johnny Rotten will pray for your sins.
March 26th, 2004 at 5:20 pm
I can’t find an email address for you, but check your logs or stats and see if you find what I did. I did an article on this today, took on FAST and I’ll be darned if they didn’t come calling for THREE hours, two sessions, one going on as I type, taking every single thing I’ve ever written.
IP Address 66.151.181.4
Reverse DNS n/a
From / Via n/a
Origin Location Not Available
Time Spent 119 min
Hits / Kilobytes 51 / 12.90Kb
Browser Tag FAST Enterprise Crawler/6 (www.fastsearch.com)
IP Address 66.151.181.4
Reverse DNS n/a
From / Via n/a
Origin Location Not Available
Time Spent 44 min
Hits / Kilobytes 15 / 0.00Kb
Browser Tag FAST Enterprise Crawler/6 (www.fastsearch.com)
I always check the links to make sure they’re working, they had to have noticed in their stats my site was there and I really went off about this.
Yikes!