Against Content Curation

Funny how we used to revile “content scrapers”. Now they’ve polished it up into a business and given it a new name to make it legit.

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Can You Unpin On Pinterest?

Yes, you can unpin an image from Pinterest!

1. Hover your cursor over the thumbnail or the full-size image that you want to UNPIN.
2. Click on the EDIT button that appears on the top left.
3. Remind yourself that you are doing the right thing to help content creators to survive.
4. Click on the DELETE PIN button on the top right.
5. You're done, and thank you on behalf of all publishers.

Unfortunately, if the image has been repinned, you can't delete that from other people's boards, and presumably, you're not off the hook for copyright infringement, as the repinning leaves a trace of your actions.

Pinterest Clears Its Throat

Ahem!

There is a change on Pinterest on how pins taken from search engine results are identified. Whereas only the result page URL was recorded before, now, the image links still leads to the result page, but Pinterest has added a link to the original source.

As usual, Pinterest is the master of half-arsed measures. Why is Pinterest accepting pins from search engines images at all? And if they are accepting such pins, and recording the original source, why are they not respecting their own proprietary nopin metatag?

That's right; the bozos handling the programming aren't respecting the nopin metatag when users pin from search engine image results.

Cough, cough.

Adding insult to injury, the new link to the source is given a "nofollow" attribute, rendering it useless to the content creator.

Please Please Oh Pretty Please

Will Pinterest Suffer From the Same Over-Hype as Groupon?

...for now, it just looks like another Internet fad of the moment -- the start-up that has caught the eyes of the investors who no longer like the looks of their previous investments.

Tentacular Exploitation Of Your Content

Google's web browser Chrome now offers an "extension" to enhance your copyright infringement experience: Pinterest Pro.

Notably, this extension lets the users "hover over pins on Pinterest and instantly get a zoomed in version without having to click through" further diminishing the low rate at which pinners click through to the original site.

There is also a new app allowing people to pin images from their iPhone or iPad, god forbid the copyright infringement should slow down when pinners are on the go: Pinterest App.

ABC News Spews Uncritical Pinterest Hype

Good Morning America Hypes Pinterest

Not a word said on how all these wonderful things on Pinterest actually come from some place else - like your website.

Pinterest Is Blocking Imgur?

Some "redditors" report that Pinterest is blocking social media image hosting site Imgur.com: Pinterest blocking Imgur now. Not happy about that.

If Pinterest is blocking Imgur because of stolen pictures and missing descriptions, by the same logic, Pinterest should block itself and vanish in a cloud of smoke - like Captain Kirk getting evil computers to implode when confronted with illogical statements.

The Disclaimer Making The Repin Rounds

The disclaimer below has been making the rounds; it's being repinned on a great number of boards. It is misguided and wrong on so many levels; it embodies the ignorance of copyright laws among Pinterest users.

NOTICE

This notice is to inform any and all Pinterest users I lay no claim as originator of any content included herein. The images here are not my creative product, nor do I intend to sell or profit from the creative and intellectual property of another. My sole goal is to appreciate, advance and promote awareness of content pinned herein.

>>> Original Pin

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Copyright Infringement Is A Contagious Disease

There is now a blog (pinterestrends.blogspot.com) that is apparently devoted to scraping content from Pinterest, the popular crowdsourced content scraper, with the infuriating disclaimer below:

All the items posted on this blog were found on Pinterest, and the copyright of each remains with its originator. If you are the owner of an image and you want remove it, please contact bicyclenthusiast [at] gmail.com

Further investigations reveal that the blog uploads the images from Pinterest to the blogspot servers, and doesn't link to either the Pinterest page or the original source. Further, the text is unashamedly infringing on other websites; this "blog" is part scaper, and scraper of scraper.