Why is this blog stealing my posts?
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I’ve had sites sporadically harvesting my site for their rss feeds, usually the site has minimal advertising, and appears not to be doing anything but accumulating hits.
I did a domain check, and topicspin is “whois guard protected”, but it’s hosted out of San Farancisco by an outfit that only hosts 7 sites.
It also tracks for alexa I believe, which puts it on MY personal S list.
[stuff deleted -drmike]
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You need to take that up with the host of topicspin. Staff here at Wp.com has no control over anything like that.
You will note that topicspin.com is not currently online. (I think that’s been said a couple of times.)
Breaking links in this thread by the way. Linking to a spammer is not a good idea.
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http://restaurant-review.unix-fu.org
Has anyone found their content on this horrible site? They’ve just lifted entire reviews off my blog, photos and all, and now it looks like I write for them. Has anyone got any ideas on how to stop people like this? I’ve been blog-scraped before, but this is the worst example.
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@foodieguide
See this thread, second page where after a blogger requested they remove the material they had scraped off their site, they did: https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=18838&page=2&replies=34 seems like all you have to do is confront them on the issue. -
Thanks so much for this! I’ve followed the thread and done everything as suggested – emailed them directly, and reported them to Google via Adsense and via Webmaster Tools (Report Spam section). I really hope it works! Your help’s much appreciated…
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Just to let you know, this is what I received in response to my email to abuseatprohosteddotnet! At least it was quickly resolved, but am still fuming…
‘Helen,
I had written a rather long response to your e-mail, however decided not to send it. RSS is what is made available for syndication. It’s not illegal by any means, and that’s what the technology’s purpose is meant for. Credit was given to your site, and the link you claim does not work, does in fact work. “This Blog” is simply anchor text. Clicking it, as I have seen for myself does lead to your original post. To sum this up, I’m a very easy person to work with. If someone contacts me asking me to remove their posts from a hosted blog, it’s simply removed. Regardless of the fact of whether or not RSS is indeed in existence for this sole purpose of syndication. I’ll have these posts removed out of respect to your wishes. You might want to consider putting up a copyright notice on your blog hosted at WordPress. If this should happen in the future, please feel free to contact me and I’ll get the matter taken care of immediately.Kindest regards,
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Making an RSS feed available is no more giving away copyright than printing books is. That you make your blog available to read does not mean you authorize theft. That’s simply, straight-up, a lie.
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The site at _____.unix-fu.org is now back up and scraping and stealing blog posts from dozens of wordpress blogs on his various scraper sites. I contacted his newest host server at (email visible only to moderators and staff) att: Brad, and they responded appropriately.
Do not attempt to contact the unix-fu guy, instead, it is helpful to contact his latest host, MojoHost. I’m sure if they receive enough complaints, the unix-fu guy will get booted from this host, too.
Another good option is to contact Google Adsense at http://www.google.com/adsense_dmca.html#notification to report this site.
By the way, the unix-fu.org contention about RSS feeds is frankly specious, not even worth my time to counter back.
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Thanks for the update. I gree that the agrument is specious and wouldn’t waste my time dealing with these duplicitous minded folks at unix.fu at all. Like you advise I would go to the host and make an adsense complaint.
Anyway, I want to post this link so everyone has the information in it https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=17307
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I have an idea: If you are annoyed your posts are being used elsewhere, how about trying this:
On every post, include a link back to your blog somewhere in it. Then, if somebody happens to read it at one of the post hijacker blogs, they’ll have an opportunity to get back to your original content.
Since it is likely all automated, an no human being is actually reviewing your content, then you will be accomplishing two goals:
1. You will be sending people to your blog.
2. You will perhaps be expanding your scope, since there is a [slight] possibility that people interested in what you blog might happen to stumble upon your posts at one of the other sites.
Just a thought…
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3: your Technorati ranking will go up. As will your Google status (only very slightly, of course).
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