blog…stolen?

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  nickthedm · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 2:28 pm

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  anyone else been hit by this?

  i was just wandering around and noticed my latest blog post copy pasted into here : http://thewomanmag.info/womanflor/2008/08/12/and-im-back/

  does word press have any rules regarding this? can i stop it?

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  wpvstp · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 2:32 pm

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  It would be helpful if you had posted both URLs, your own, and the “stolen” one.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 2:43 pm

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  It’s a blog that immediately reproduces every post that includes the tag “woman” or “women”! Here are their four latest posts and the originals:

  http://thewomanmag.info/womanflor/2008/08/18/modified-right-of-passage-ceremony/
  http://arushaproject.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/modified-right-of-passage-ceremony/

  http://thewomanmag.info/womanflor/2008/08/18/marriage-and-family-series-love-the-foundation/
  http://deadseascrolls.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/marriage-and-family-love-the-foundation/

  http://thewomanmag.info/womanflor/2008/08/18/blade/
  http://readdandelion.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/blade/

  http://thewomanmag.info/womanflor/2008/08/18/is-the-man-really-supposed-to-be-head-of-the-household/
  http://prosperousindividual.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/is-the-man-really-supposed-to-be-head-of-the-household/

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 4:11 pm

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  Most likely they are getting the posts off of the RSS feeds for the blogs. Do you have your blogs set to show only a summary, or the entire post (settings > discussion)? I always set my RSS feeds to show only a summary so that splogs and scrapers only get a summary of a line or two, not the entire post.

  http://thewomanmag.info is a self-hosted blog using the software from wordpress.org (<meta name=”generator” content=”WordPress 2.1″ />), and neither wordpress.com, nor wordpress.org has any control over self-hosted blogs.

  The whois information can be found here: http://www.networksolutions.com/whois/results.jsp?domain=thewomanmag.info

  You can find more information on them here: http://stolen.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/thewomanmaginfo/

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 4:24 pm

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  @thesacredpath: Many thanks!

  Would it be useful to notify other bloggers whose posts appear in that blog?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 4:30 pm

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  With 5353 posts (according to the count in the category widget) that would be a lifelong project, but then again, if you were to alert say 25 or 50 and then they would contact the webhost and/or send in DMCA cease and desist letters, it may get the site shut down much quicker.

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 4:45 pm

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  Thanks again, thesacredpath. I didn’t dream of contacting thousands of people, of course – I just thought I’d leave a comment to the four I linked above and urge them to carry on with others.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Aug 18, 2008 at 4:49 pm

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  Good idea.