Why is this blog stealing my posts?
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Does anyone have any idea why a blog like this would be set up to steal every single post of mine the minute they go up?
topicspin.com/
The blog doesn’t allow comments and doesn’t have an email address, so I can’t ask them.
I guess I don’t get the point of stealing all of my content. Is there any way to stop them? (Prolly not, but I thought I’d ask.)
*sigh*
The original content is here: http://marykaysucks.wordpress.com
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That page is down. Did you report it to their ISP or something? They were probably spammers of some kind, looking to leech off searches for you or suchlike.
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You know that link is no good. Are you sure you put the right link?Did it have a lot of advertising on it? Sometimes these ‘sploggs’ are only out to make money, and are too lazy to even write their own posts. Sad really.
Just curious was it a wordpress blog? Wondering why you started this thread 35 minutes ago, and already the site cannot be reached by your link. -
You might want to check out this link.
http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/one-year-anniversary-review-bloggers-rights-and-the-risks-of-blogging/ -
The site is still there. The link I use is this and it is valid:
topicspin.com/
I never thought of reporting it to the ISP.
No, it is not filled with advertising which is why I wondering why they’re stealing my posts. They’re stealing posts from other blogs too. And it seems automated since they steal each post as soon as I put it up.
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It’s a funny link. It has no “www” before it. Just type in topicspin-dot-net in your browser and see if you can get it.
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Here is a link to a specific post that they took, if this helps:
topicspin.com/2006/09/17/what-do-princess-leia-and-allison-lamarr-have-in-common/
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1st you post .com then you say .net which is it? I tried both of them though and even tried adding the www part nothing comes up.
This is what happened on my last search search.yahoo.com/search?&p=topicspin.com&fr=ieas-dns
You may still be seeing it because you have not deleted cookies.Obviously it is not online now.
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I did a web search. Check this out and find the name behind the sick and twisted game
dluzion – account closed
Name: A.Rafiq
Location: Wisconsin – Cheese county
Trader Rating: (26)
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 473“lol took 30 seconds to make this and getting awesome traffic.
topicspin.com”http://www.namepros.com/marketing-techniques/229848-30-second-site-getting-awesome-traffic.html
WARNING: AVOID ALL TEMPTATION TO DIALOGUE WITH ANYONE ON THIS SITE
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Looked at that page also and the link does not work there.Must have closed the site down.
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Niethr of the links she provided work now and if you take a close look at what I posted you will see why “account closed”.
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Yes, I see his account is closed at namepros.com. Are you trying to state that Topicspin.com is hosted by namepros.com? If that is what you are stating(although i do not see anywhere in your previous post where you mentioned this) then that ist would explain the site not being up.If,however, you do not in fact know that topicspin.com is hosted by namepros.com. then his account being closed at Namepros.com is irrelevant to the closing of topicspin.com.
I do not see how the closing of one account effects the other unless both are hosted by the same site.
AXE
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Okay, the site was up last night and now it is not. So I understand that he was stealing posts to generate traffic and would later put up ads. Is there a way to stop this from happening in the future?
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I don’t think so, but at least someone somewhere shut him down. I don’t think your reputation is going to be impacted, nor your blog, so that’s good.
People go to great lengths to prevent their words from getting into the hands of people who’d misuse them, but most of the methods reduce readability for the normal user. Imagine putting up a blog that was all PDFs…people have tried it. And noooooooobody reads them.
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Unless you mark your blog as private, wordpress.com publishes RSS feeds which make it easy for anyone to grab and republish your content. Since you can’t shut these off without shutting search engines out as well (and they are in any case useful for genuine readers) there’s little you can do to prevent this; all you can do is complain to the hosts of the splog and hope they shut it down.
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Maybe you could search Scoble’s site, http://www.scobleizer.wordpress.com. I’m dead certain he’ll have dealt with this issue many times. Hang on, I remember now; he had this issue just last month! So you don’t have to go far in the archives. It’s in there.
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