New splogging site?
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I’m being scraped by a new splogging site:
http://www.wpbloggers.com/Anyone else noticing this?
Interestingly, it seems to be *very* like wordpress.comthe one nabbing me is girl.wpbloggers.com
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I tried to look at girl dot wp etc etc and all that came up was a blank page with the words Coming Soon.
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huh. It’s working for me–did you use http://girl.wpbloggers.com/ ?
Perhaps only girls can see it? :D
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Yeah, I’ve been hit by others with that same exact format going on – it’s splogging all the way.
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The site appears to be hosted in the USA by Steadfast Networks, so you should be able to get a timely and apprepriate response. If you are the copyright holder of content that is being posted there without permissions and outside of fair use, I recommend contacting (email visible only to moderators and staff) with a DMCA notice.
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Thanks!
Personally, I don’t think it’s fair use if they use my content for a commercial purpose (driving traffic to a splog)–even if it’s 50 words and a link.Anyone else know if there are any legal guidelines?
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The legal guidelines have been posted previously. They are in the forum searchbox but I have these links on hand.
http://www.copyscape.com/plagiarism.php
http://www.copyscape.com/resources.php
http://www.google.com/dmca.htmlThe bottom line is that if you want something to be done then you have to do the doing in the way that foolswisdom suggests – contacting (email visible only to moderators and staff) with a DMCA notice.
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This is probably what you mean it’s Lorelle’s post called
What to do when someone is stealing your content. -
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Hey guys. I am the owner of wpbloggers.com. We have recently been swamped with bots signing up for accounts and splogging. (you can thank Eli at bluehatseo for that!) We have disabled sign ups and implemented an automated abuse system on the bottom of every post. It’s simple and easy to do. Please use this system or email us directly at abuse (at) wpbloggers.com rather then hassling the nice guys at steadfast (I recommend them if you need hosting).
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I have also been scrapped by such a site: church dot wpbloggers dot com.
wpblogger owner, I just wonder about why exactly you want my email address. Compiling a database, maybe? Call me paranoid, but I am not putting my email in the form n a massive web site used primarily for splogging. My email address is easy enough to find, and I already get plenty of spam for that, but I’m not just going to give it to you like that.
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I’ve also been scrapped. Everyone should just send an email to (email visible only to moderators and staff) as foolswisdom suggested.
Who should people contact when a WP.com hosted blog is copying content from other blogs? Should it just be reported as a splog?
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Who should people contact when a WP.com hosted blog is copying content from other blogs? Should it just be reported as a splog?
Report the wordpress.com blog that is stealing content to staff http://wordpress.com/contact-support/
Blogs with spam or illegal content are removed.
Our DMCA Notice can be viewed here: http://automattic.com/dmca -
James Welch –> Why don’t you just email (email visible only to moderators and staff) and try to get wordpress.com taken offline like your doing to our service??
matthewpoer — Email is not required, but when I review a dispute where someone claims that they wrote a blog first, I need an email to reply to. When it’s a blatant splog it isn’t needed.
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@wpbloggers
I’ll give you a chance. I just emailed you about the scraping of my site. Since I use the “summary” in my RSS feed, what is on the corresponding wpbloggers site are just a few sentences from my posts, but I want it removed. I don’t want to have to do this again. -
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So, the situation is that wpbloggers.com is a WordPress MultiUser install like WordPress.com? Then it makes sense to deal with you rather than with the ISP.
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