[BenSS]

What is Marco misunderstanding? He doesn't know how the site operates, or that they were 'trying things out'. I really don't buy the long-winded explanation. The pages are still available, and easily findable. It's not like he went out of his way to locate them.

[smoyer]

True ... misunderstanding isn't quite what I was trying to convey. When I read Marco's original accusation, it was pretty obvious that they hadn't just scraped the whole article. If you were intent on stealing it, why not take the whole thing? But I was confused by the lack of attribution.

I was more interested in commenting on their reply ... and I agree that it was overly long for what they conveyed. It could have been a lot shorter if they hadn't spent so much time trying to make Marco look like the one who was in the wrong. And I still don't believe he was ... whether or not he knew what he was looking at.

The other thing that struck me was that their technical solution sounded a bit hacked. Perhaps their developers are ham-stringed by poor architectural decisions. If not, then the article made them sound either incompetent or lazy.