Content rip-off

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  littlebigwords · Member · Feb 17, 2008 at 7:20 pm

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  I got two spam comments today, and when I went back to the user’s wordpress blog, the person had quoted me word-for-word, repeated the entire post, and then asserted that somebody ELSE (not my domain name) had written it.

  The link they put did link back to my site, but after you repeat the post in its entirety, who will come to “read the rest of ‘this great post’?” I would like to know how to report users like this and prevent this from happening again. Thanks.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Feb 17, 2008 at 8:33 pm

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  If the blog that did the copying is at WordPress.com, please see here:

  http://wordpress.com/complaints/

  If not, you’ll need to track down the owner of the site and send them a DMCA notice.

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Feb 18, 2008 at 12:14 am

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  This crops up time and again. At least they’re linking back to your blog – a lot of them don’t even do that.

  For a how-to:

  http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/what-to-do-if-youre-getting-as-sick-as-i-am-of-having-your-blog-copied/

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  ritawaller · Member · Feb 18, 2008 at 12:17 am

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  How do you disable right clicking??

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Feb 18, 2008 at 12:34 am

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  ummm…. right-clicking? Are we on-topic here?

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  trent · Member · Feb 18, 2008 at 12:37 am

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  You cannot disable “right clicking” on wordpress.com blogs, but if you want to talk about this more, please start a new thread as this is a topic about content theft.

  Trent