Stolen wordpress sites?
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Hi. I just found some weird thing where something called “white-stallion.appspot.com” has my blog adress after that one making it look like it´s theirs or something, and I have seen the same thing connected to another blog I know around here. No telling how many there are. What is it? anyone know? it´s freaking me out.
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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@chrisrudzki
So do I. Does this help at all?
white-stallion.appspot.com is hosted by Google Inc.
WHOIS: Click Here
IP Address: 74.125.21.141
Name Servers:
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Yeah, the site seems to be an “app” created by a third-party and hosted by Google App Engine. I’d assume that someone has duplicated vafann’s site there.
If that’s what you’re concerned about, probably best to contact Google regarding the infringement on your copyright:
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Thank you guys for looking into it. I don´t understand what it means that someone has duplicated my site. Why would they do that? I just checked and got that “over quota” message too, both when I looked at the link with my own site attached to it, and the other one that I know of here, Its one I follow, that´s why I recognized it.
I have no idea what to do about it, I don´t even understand, well, anything. I have seen several other wordpress blogs connected with other names besides “white Stallion” in front of “appspot” linked on Google, but since I don´t know the blogs in question I can´t say that there is anything wrong, but it looks like there are a lot of them.
I don´t know if I´m making sense, it´s late in my time zone and my head is tired. :)
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People rip off content for a variety of self serving reasons. One of the main ones is that they can make money from stolen content because they run ads on their sites and when visitors click ads they make money.
The bottom line is that we cannot help you with this issue. You need to follow the steps found at the link provided above https://support.google.com/legal/answer/1120734
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I just found this thread here, but it is closed so I can´t ask how it was “sorted”. I don´t understand this, and isn´t it a problem for WordPress.com if a lot of peoples blogs are so easily being duplicated by whatever it is, and being used for whatever purpose?
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Thank you for your help. I think I´ve figured out what it is. It´s some kind of mirroring thing that people in countries where content is blocked can enter the url of a site and be taken there through the thingy. It seems like it´s actually harmless. (I hope). :)
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Hi, I just saw my wordpress blog being hosted there at white stallion app spot as well, what should i do, is it okay to let it be? Please suggest. Thank you.
My wordpress blog is zhwadevivre.wordpress.com and the url that I saw today was- http://white-stallion.appspot.com/zhwadevivre.wordpress.com/
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