Replacing plagiarized images

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  travelwitheric · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 8:41 pm

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  I just found another blog basically plagiarizing my content without any links to mine or credit to it. The content has four images that I want to replace with images that say that the content is plagiarized. Unfortunately, I can’t rename the actual filenames to use the old filenames being plagiarized. Is there any way to replace the old images with new images and reuse the same filenames?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 9:00 pm

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  Can we get a link to your WordPress.com blog, starting with http://

  If you are hosted on WordPress.com, basically you can’t rename the existing files, so delete them and upload new ones, insert in existing post. The plagiarizing blog will have missing images. They’ll get the message. Serves the same purpose.

  But before you delete the images, contact the website’s hosting provider and advise them that the site they’re hosting is plagiarizing your material. Most honorable web hosts have a TOS that states that the poster has to own the content they post. Including WordPress.com Just sayin’…

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  travelwitheric · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 pm

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  http://bricksofwine.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/new-j-bookwalter-releases/ is my content and site.

  The offending site is http://www.rcanalscanals.com/wine/new-j-bookwalter-releases/

  I’m in the process of finding out the hosting provider who appears to be in the Czech Republic.

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  justjennifer · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 9:29 pm

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  It seems to be a scraper site, scraping other WordPress.com sites:

  http://private.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?domain=rcanalscanals.com

  Another resource:

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  travelwitheric · Member · Feb 23, 2009 at 9:49 pm

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  Thanks. Already sent all the appropriate emails to the hosting provider. In the process now of putting all the necessary redundant copyright notices throughout my site. What a pain. This happened many years ago (1996 to be exact) and I had to do a very similar thing. Google is both a blessing and a curse.