User-agent: *
Disallow: /maintenance/

# 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: /