I know this is an ongoing problem that will never go away. What I am referring to is people going to ezine articles or wherever and copying content, then using the content without leaving the author resource intact. Basically adding their own affiliate links to it. Is there any kind of software out there that I can use that will effectively monitor my published content and alert me when something has been published elsewhere? I know I can check each individual article in copyscape but I have too many articles published to do that... I realize it is probably going to take a lot of effort to try and chase down all these lazy mofos who steal other peoples work for their own benefit, but I would like to snag a few of them anyway. Thanks
I am not aware of any kind of software which does that periodically. I suggest you use BST to put a WTB service stating that your 100+ or any number of articles are to be checked for duplicates and you should be provided with the URLs of the sites which have your article. Easy and not so pricey job too. Try it and let us know how it went.
Maybe you could put all your works in a CMS on line but set to where search engine robots won't go into it then run copyscape on it once a week. Edit- You probably also set the CMS site to be blank until you run copyscape then turn it blank again when you are done.
Got to admit that I just pick a line at random from the text, wrap it in double quotes, drop it into google, and see what comes up. Most scrapers are fairly smart though. They're on hosts or in datacenters who don't care or are in countries who don't care.
Heres a good idea ... i use CopyScape, its a script when embeded in your website and when another webiste uses the same text or article or matter, it will alert you on finding a copy on the web, that will help you find if your unique articles are being duplicated. i think this should help you: google copyscape youll find it.. regards Josh, Orangecopper Solutions
In a lot of those cases they're still dumb enough to use advertisers who do care. Ad networks and even private advertisers rarely take kindly to paying out ad revenue for pages hosting illegal content.
My experience to that statement shows otherwise. A quick check of just torrents sites shows many advertisements for main stream companies. And a quick check of Automattic shows many companies ponying up for their VIP program with an unethical company.
Look don't bring in advertsers in this discussion I have seen google adsense on websites who are using copied contents. You can check one of the sites bihartimes.com they are having many pages which are nothing but simply copy of news content of IANS (Indo Asian News) and still they are having google adsense account.
Try sending out DMCA notices to ad networks when someone's using their ads on pages with your stolen content. Nearly every time I have, their accounts have been suspended or banned depending on the depth of the problem (republishing one article vs stealing a whole site for example). I've done the same quite a bit with private advertisers who have pulled their ads and money when they realize what's going on. They don't want to be associated with it (and that includes adult and other sometimes "questionable" advertisers). You can't point to general sites and say they won't act. They won't do anything, obviously, unless the actual copyright holder contacts them. When that happens through the proper channels, they rarely ignore it. This thread is about how to deal with content thieves. Contacting advertisers is one way that's been effective. But that doesn't mean all copyright holders have acted or will act on it. That doesn't mean the OP can't or shouldn't.
Grooveman You could try setting up a 'google alert' - Just add part of your article as the search term in quotes or something. You'll be alerted every time google finds that part of your article. Then you'd have to manually check to see if you bio is intact, etc. I've never tried this myself so i apologise if it doesn't work. But seems totally viable to me.
Oh of course not. But considering I have listed over 120 outstanding DMCA requests made by myself or hosting clients of mine with a certain datacenter company based out of Dallas doesn't mean it will always get you a response or action. Let's put it down to this: Your mileage may vary when you file a complaint. They doesn't mean you shouldn't though. edit: The Google Alert is a good idea.
I would be amazed if anyone except the original content owner would bother to raise the issue of content theft. Anyway, stealing contents specially from the news sites of develping world is very common. Believe it or not even google has not got any problem with that, as most of the pages are shown in the search results for the title keywords.
That is a bit different than the kid staying up late on a school night copying articles onto his websites. The torrent sites use ad networks and there is a pretty good chance that any mainstream company would be surprised to know their ads were appearing there. The torrent sites are definitely not doing private ad sales to mainstream companies.