How to change my RSS feed URL? (Content theft)

  • I have found a website that is illegally republishing my blog content verbatim, and since they are not paying any attention to my C&D (and the host is no help since it is out of the country) I have no choice to change my RSS feed URL. I hate to do it, but I see no other choice to protect my content. So, I see no way in the config panel to do this. CAn anyone point me in the right direction?

    Also, are there any measures that one can take to prevent this from happening again? I set my feed to just show a brief instead of the entire contents of my entries, but that’s not an optimal solution.

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  • Similar thread (might have some thoughts in it)
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/104066?replies=21

    Also, see the first 2 hits:
    https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/search.php?q=copyright+notice+rss

    I’ve written a plugin called DualFeeds which allows you to offer BOTH a full post AND a summary feed. By default, the normal site feed is full post and a second feed is created (by adding &dualfeed=2 to the URL) for the summary feed. However there is a parameter to switch the feeds, so the normal feed is summary and the second feed is full post.

    I didn’t write this to deal with the splogging situation, but it could be used to help to a degree.

    If you use the plugin and switch it, so the normal feed is the summary and the second feed the full post, then the sploggers will presumably scrape the summary feed. If they want to, they could visit your site and find the full post feed, but I think most of them won’t, so this may offer a degree of protection.

    The main problem with this approach is that it will mess up your existing subscribers (who will have to resubscribe to the URL for the second feed).

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