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What's acceptable when aggregating RSS feeds?

A few days ago Damien Mulley and Maman Poulet posted that Something.ie was stealing their content. I didn’t pay much attention at the time but at first glance it seemed like they were complaining about their RSS feed being syndicated. RSS feeds are meant to be syndicated - Google and technorati do the same thing right?

Then today, Something.ie published a response making much the same argument. They argue that they are simply syndicating the RSS feed and that they are no different to other aggregators such as Politics in Ireland

I’ve built a few aggregators in the past so, having an interest in this area , I took a closer look. And it seems to me that Something.ie are on the wrong side of what’s acceptable etiquette for aggregating RSS feeds. Here’s why…

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