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+User-agent: *
+Disallow: /misc/
+
+# TOTAL COPYRIGHT DEATH
+# IP VIOLATION SCANNERS GTFO
+
+# "This robot collects content from the Internet for the sole purpose of #
+# helping educational institutions prevent plagiarism. [...] we compare student
+# papers against the content we find on the Internet to see if we # can find
+# similarities." (https://www.turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html)
+User-Agent: TurnitinBot
+Disallow: /
+
+# "NameProtect engages in crawling activity in search of a wide range of brand
+# and other intellectual property violations that may be of interest to our
+# clients." (https://www.nameprotect.com/botinfo.html)
+User-Agent: NPBot
+Disallow: /
+
+# "iThenticate is a new service we have developed to combat the piracy of
+# intellectual property and ensure the originality of written work for
+# publishers, non-profit agencies, corporations, and newspapers."
+# (https://www.slysearch.com/)
+User-Agent: SlySearch
+Disallow: /
+
+# "BLEXBot assists internet marketers to get information on the link structure
+# of sites and their interlinking on the web, to avoid any technical and
+# possible legal issues and improve overall online experience."
+# (http://webmeup-crawler.com/)
+User-Agent: BLEXBot
+Disallow: /
+
+# "Providing Intellectual Property professionals with superior brand protection
+# services by artfully merging the latest technology with expert analysis."
+# (https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html/)
+# "The Internet is just way to big to effectively police alone." (ACTUAL quote)
+User-agent: CheckMarkNetwork/1.0 (+https://www.checkmarknetwork.com/spider.html)
+Disallow: /
+
+# "Stop trademark violations and affiliate non-compliance in paid search.
+# Automatically monitor your partner and affiliates’ online marketing to
+# protect yourself from harmful brand violations and regulatory risks. We
+# regularly crawl websites on behalf of our clients to ensure content
+# compliance with brand and regulatory guidelines."
+# (https://www.brandverity.com/why-is-brandverity-visiting-me)
+User-agent: BrandVerity/1.0
+Disallow: /
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