RSS Feed Usage - What Are Your Thoughts On This?

[Lee]

So i just received an email from a site owner who told me that i am using his RSS feed 'illegally' by using the content contained within the feed on a site that i own.

Now here is where the problem comes in, the fact that its an RSS feed means that anyone can link to it and use the content of the feed does it not?

That was certainly my beleif when i set this feed up.

What do you folks think, should i just email the guy back telling him to fuck himself whilst explaining that he doesnt have a clue about how the 'interweb' or RSS feeds work, or should i remove his RSS Feed from my site?

Regards,

Lee

[Seth]

Isn't that the whole purpose of making a public RSS feed available? Perhaps he has a problem with you publishing the data on one of your sites. Especially if it's for profit. Maybe his intention was to make it available for personal use only in a RSS reader?

[basschick]

does he want you to remove it on the basis that he doesn't want it on a porn site?

[t0miie]

Hahaha what a wanker. I would just politely explain to him the benefits of RSS. obviously he doesn't have a clue what the many purposes of RSS are, or how its going to benefit him having other people link to his RSS articles.

Eiher way... what really can he do?