The Substantially Similar Weblog

I helped author this letter urging Universities to take a stand against network monitoring purely at the behest of the copyright industries.

This strip from Doonesbury was right on.

Apparently crawler918.com (aka nameprotect.com) is a pretty bad actor. Aside from ignoring robot rules, its purported purpose is to find targets of lawsuits for copyright infringement.

If you run a webserver, please consider banning this crawler with

 Deny from 12.148.196.128/25 

Presumably this address will change over time, but it’s a start.