Classeed.wordpress.com is scraping/publishing without permission

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  awsamuel · Member · Dec 25, 2009 at 1:15 am

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  A recent article I wrote showed up on a WordPress.com-hosted site, which appears to be scraping content without permission. Can you shut them down? I’d email them but my experience with scrapers is that they don’t care, and since the entire site looks scraped I figure you’ll need to just pull the plug.

  You can see the post they scraped from me at: http://classeed.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/can-a-smartphone-make-you-more-patient/

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  timethief · Member · Dec 25, 2009 at 1:39 am

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  Volunteers cannot help with this. Follow these instructions pleasehttp://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 25, 2009 at 1:48 am

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  Hey stranger! I reported it as spam for good measure. It usually doesn’t take long for those to go down.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 25, 2009 at 3:59 am

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  This ought to be better http://en.support.wordpress.com/content-theft-what-to-do/

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  raincoaster · Member · Dec 25, 2009 at 5:19 am

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  Given I know awsamuel and support, and Classeed has been reported before for this kind of thing, the more reports the better.

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  timethief · Member · Dec 25, 2009 at 5:43 am

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  I quietly reported the same hours ago also.