hey, who else has been copied w/out permission??
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I came to my site, had some “spam” thing which I tracked back to some WordPress blog titled…”family blogfinder” at http://family.blogofinder.com…I went there to find my entry having been copied, in total, however under a different users name, “Adam P” which IS NOT my user name…don’t even know how that one came about…with a link to my entry. i looked all over that site for a way to contact whoever runs it, to ask why they copied my entry without permission, these blogs we have are protected under copyright and I don’t like the idea of being copied without permission.
Has anybody else been copied to some kind of “blogfinder” thing set up via WordPress? If so, what did you do, were you able to contact the one who copied it, is there anything we can do to make sure it doesn’t happen without our permission? Who the hell are they and why do they basically steal our entries? (I call it “steal” because they copy without permission.)
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This is dead common. This is a blog scraper, and it’s illegal. Contact the owner and demand the post be removed. If that fails, contact the blog host and alert them to the fact that you’re the copyright owner, you’ve asserted copyright, and there has been no response. If you like and they have ads, contact the ad company (eg Google Adsense) and report this. All reputable ad companies prohibit this kind of thing.
If you do a forum search for “Blog Scraper” or “Splog” you’ll find dozens and dozens of threads on the issue.
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thanks for the reply, i appreciate it a lot. the one i listed, you can “register” for, which i have done, so to check it out. i found no way to contact anybody who runs the thing, there is no “contact us” or whatever listed, that one might find on a blog and/or website. i followed the “whois” thing, however it’s confusing enough to understand, i might get in contact with the abuse administrator listed there, other than that, i guess i’ll try what you suggested.
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yeah somebody or something did it to me too, and of course there is no contact link on the damn site.
there should be a way that wordpress can protect our blogs from these websites! there should be a way that WE can protect our blogs from these people, if WP can’t do it.
it just isn’t right! -
annoying .. while the blog does link correctly to my site, it annoys me that first they say “fashion insanity wrote …” arrrggghhh! http://www.christian.luiscorreia.com/his-amazing-love/ is the one that did it to me. and to top it off i tried to leave a comment and it said that I needed to be logged in.. I was logged into wordpress at the time and it threw up a phony log in screen.
You all are right, it’s just not right
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It’s hard to write 100k blogs a day :) So people have to get content from sources already out there. Most of the time this is done through a fully automated scripts that go out and find related topics and grab content from it. From googles and most peoples prospective as long as you give a link back crediting the original source you’re ok. Just the way of the internet, like it or write a book that’s harder to have you content copied from.
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The same thing happened to me, with a different name getting credit for the post, and i went to the site and was equally confused. It was even the same link — the family.blogofinder bit. I have no solutions, but I can empathize!
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Like rain says, this happens all the time. Some copy without a link back, others copy the first few lines with a link to your site.
The way to handle it is methodically, so that every time you notice it, all it takes is a couple minutes of your time to take care of contacting Google Adsense, because 99% of the time the offending site is running Adsense Ads.
For more info:
http://lettershometoyou.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/what-to-do-if-youre-getting-as-sick-as-i-am-of-having-your-blog-copied/ -
Good news, for those of you who are competitive: blog scrapers are counted on Technorati, so if you get scraped, your Technorati status goes up. I have mixed feelings about that for sure, but it’s something of which you should be aware. So there IS an upside.
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I haven’t noticed my count go up at all in the last three months – stuck at around 100 – even though I’ve received a lot of pingbacks from scrapers. What gives?
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Hell, I’ve gone down nearly 50 points. I can only think the number of scrapers decreases?
Actually, it appears they’ve changed their algorithm from one that rewards any links to one that rewards only NEW links. So screw over your regular readers and court the widest variety of scrapers to increase Technorati ranking.
God knows, I’m Technorati’s bitch, but this latest change is going too far.
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Because Technorati is in waaaaaaaay over their heads. I think they mean well, but didn’t know what they were getting into, nor what would happen over time. I think they figured they’d lose out to another system, but none has come along.
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