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Originally Posted by MikeSmoke
One would definitely hope so...but as someone who spends a pathetic amount of time (and probably a lot less time than a lot of people here) trying to track down my stolen content and have it removed...it seems that scripts like this make it easier than ever for content thieves to just set up a script and have it steal all of a producer's content while they sleep  |
Liquid Media facilitates media additions in various ways. Scraping is only one method of getting content into the system. You can also add content manually, via zip, ftp, etc.
Liquid Media is an extensive CMS system that was not created to harvest stolen content. It's not a 'fusker-style' script which is the impression I'm getting from your reply. Scraping in LM was added as a means to pull content in just as it can extract zip files and build from them, or you can upload images individually or ftp them in. It's simply a means to an end and was created to speed up gallery creation.
With that said, I understand your position, but LM does not crawl URLs as such. It scrapes from the supplied URLs. Someone would have to compile a list of URLs for it to import. A hammer doesn't build a home on it's own, no matter how much we'd like it to. It's simply a tool to complete the job. One of many, and that's exactly what the scraping tool in LM does. It's so far removed from what LM is...
Liquid Media is an extremely powerful full featured CMS with threaded discussions, possibly the most powerful advertising engine ever built, event-driven content delivery, full blogging tools (with post-dating, drafts, auto-gallery blogging, and more).
I assure you, that is no where near the goal for this system.