fav.or.it Will Sell Your Blog's Content

caturday writes: "Online blog aggregator fav.or.it appears to believe that they do not need to adhere to standard copyright laws if the blog owner chooses to reserve full copyright rather than make use of a Creative Commons license. For those who are not familiar, the site uses the RSS feeds from blogs all over the Internet, republishing the content, including comments. It also creates a profile for each blogger, as well as fake comments on other blogs that are attributed to that profile (example: http://fav.or.it/profile/2335 — none of these comments were made by the "user" Poorer Than You). The site owners are never contacted with requests for such aggregation. In addition, the owners of fav.or.it maintain a Twitter feed, in which they vigorously defend their position, claiming that "...some people really have no clue that RSS feeds are there to be aggregated." According to their "Mission Statement", they intend to monetize other people's content."