Halp Pls?

[luthaiseakit]

Erm...

Whilst googling 'luthaisea'  (I'm vain and nosey, deal with it) I came across this  - http://www.scoop.it/t/larp/p/1048039706/luthaisea-s-kit-astrid-and-the-lorien-trust

It would appear my blog post on Astrid's kit now appears in some kind of online larp magazine?  Only I wasn't asked and I have no idea what it is or anything.  If you click on it it takes you to my blog and stuff and they don't make out they've written it or anything but still...  Should I be annoyed?  Do I want to get it taken down and if so how on earth do I go about that?

I have sod all internet savvy.  Please give advice?

Comments

[helbling.livejournal.com]

It is considered good online etiquette to ask before reposting or reblogging, unless the aforementioned site already has something in their FAQs answering that question. However, it is considered a far bigger faux pas to reblog without acknowledgement or a link back.

So, is this ham fisted and not particularly well done? Yes. Is it overly malicious? I don't think so. As everyone has already said, it really comes down to what you want done with it - if you're happy with whatever extra traffic you get, leave it. If you'd like them to take it down for whatever reason - perhaps if they're hotlinking your images or the like - then an email to them asking is the way to go. Technically, hosting copy righted material without the owner's permission is a bad thing, so if they refuse, you can contact their hosting provider and tell them, who should be able to insist they remove it or they will do it for them (we've done this). If they cut the reference back to solely a link to your site, this becomes more nebulous.

[lilacivy.livejournal.com]

What does hotlinking mean? :S

[xanthipe]

Directly linking to content like images on someone else's server. Generally bad because it eats their bandwidth, avoids ads for those who rely on them and frequently the content isn't attributed to its owner.