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muru
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What do we do about mirror sites?

Following searching various things for this question, I found:

http://askubuntu.greatknow.com/questions/294850/does-canonical-have-other-deals-with-companies-like-the-amazon-search-feature

which seems like a mirror copy of:

Does Canonical have other deals with companies like the Amazon search feature?

Now this makes me thing of 4 things:

  • Is this site here to do harm? (e.g. a SE user signs in through it and gets their account nicked)
  • Isn't there copyright infringement stuff that might cause issue?
  • Is it affiliated with Ubuntu / Stack Exchange anyway?
  • Any advertising making money from our content?

I have in the past found various weird sites that contain shortened versions of Stack Exchange questions/answers and link to the main post (e.g. this site), this is the first that seems to be trying to copy it exactly..


At the bottom it links to http://photoemblem.greatknow.com/ http://pasteubuntu.greatknow.com/

http://www.greatknow.com/ appears to be some weird Q&A site.

It also updates to keep up-to-date with the current site. Compare http://askubuntu.greatknow.com/questions & http://askubuntu.com/questions, then panic.

Wilf
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