Blogger Using WordPress.com content
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Hello,
I’ve just discovered this blog at http://gerardlongsj.blogspot.com/2009/03/beach-shells-from-south-gippsland.html using my content from http://southgippsland.wordpress.com/2009/02/19/beach-shells-from-south-gippsland/
Seems like it’s been automatically generated as the wording is similar but doesn’t make sense and the image has been cropped yet still retains one of my watermarks.
QUESTIONS
…how do others get benefit from things like this?
…can those links given back to me be beneficial or harmful?I tried to report it to blogger but I just recieved an options page without any immediate solutions.
By the way, I really appreciate the way wordpress has set up the ‘post/blog flagging’ system. I’ve flagged a site in the past and was contacted quickly and the blog was subsequently banned…THANKS WORDPRESS.
Your thoughts…?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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Do you mean this person just ‘pinched’ your post and posted it as their own? (I have checked it out.)
That is worrysome. How can this be prevented?
Lifey who would like to know how to watermark photos
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This is theft, pure and simple. It is sad that Google/blogspot does not seem to take this sort of thing as seriously as they do here at wordpress.COM.
If you go to the blogspot site, and click on the “flag blog” link in the blue bar at the top, you can click on the “Copyright/Piracy issues” button and then click on continue. The third bullet point on the page that then opens has a link to their DCMA policy and the instructions for submitting one.
This may take a couple weeks.
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Yes lifemagician – this person (or machine) pinched the post and photograph.
What I’m curious about is how they actually benefit from doing it???
It almost seems to benefit ME more as they have linked back to my website.Thanks for the tip thesacredpath…almost doesn’t seem worth the bother to submit a complaint…thank heavens WORDPRESS has a system that works better.
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It does not benefit you; they only linked back in hopes you will mistake this for a good thing and fail to report them.
Usually, people do this for one of three reasons: they want content to put ads around, they are trying to “get hits” without wanting to write content, or they’re working for one of those blog networks that pays $2-5 a post and does not care where they get the content from or whether it’s legal, they just have to meet their quota for posts.
Report them.
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Also, by duplicating your content they are lowering your ranking in search engines. That can be serious. Kill them off.
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