WebmasterWorldForumBot?

what is this?

[Trisha]

I was looking at a sites robots.txt and it had the following:
User-agent: WebmasterWorldForumBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: WebmasterWorld Extractor
Disallow: /

Sorry if this has been asked here a million times, I looked through this forum and searched on Google, but didn't see an explanation. Since these are also both on the robots.tx for this site I'm guessing that despite their names, they are not associated with this site?

[pleeker]

I have seen the content of WebmasterWorld threads and posts (word-for-word) appear on other sites, presumably without permission. I would assume these bots are doing the extracting of the Forum content (illegally).