I've recently written a few new articles to ezinearticles.com. Every once and a while I do a search with Google for specific sentences from my articles to see if anyone has grabbed them up. Once thing I am noticing more and more is that people are "stealing" the articles by not leaving the author resource intact. Makes me angry for sure, but I'm not sure there is much I can do since many of these sites are just aggregates running on autopilot. Anybody have any suggestions of fighting content piracy?
Why not add your information within the article istelf? If it's mainly aggregators that are doing this, then I'm sure the author/domain information will not be removed.
Let's hope there will be a long term solution to all this content piracy, because I can tell you, it's one of the top/major problems faced by webmasters today. Compared to last year, I'd say a 200% increase....
Good idea to add my information, although sometimes it is tough with ezine articles...they may flag you with 'self promotion' issues.
This has happened to me aswell. If you can legally prove that their your articles, you can send a DMCA notice to them, surely they will remove or append your 'stolen' content. If not, hey welcome to court. Also if they do not reply, or refuse to append the content, you can contact their host, and inform them of the situation. I had to do this recently. Worked like a charm.
Yes, TonyRocks; Braunson was right. You should contact the webmasters to pull out your contents from their site. You can show your EzineArticles submission as proof that you own the articles and that you have posted them earlier than they do. You can show this fact by creating a screenshot of your ezinearticles admin panel, which contains the title of your article and the date of publication. Give him the link to the live content and your Expert Author's profile (to show that your site is live and that the author is really you.) If the webmaster failed to heed to your request, that is, to remove the copied contents, email the host immediately to take some actions over the issue. Almost always, hosting companies will help in resolving plagiarism issues. It'll be either they would warn the webmaster about the infraction, remove the contents themselves or suspend the webmaster's hosting account.
You can search whois.sc and find the website owners name and contact info. You could then contact the owner and let him know he is in violation of copywrite laws. Most of the time they will take the sites down. If you are serious, press charges in the county the website owner lives in...Then, write a blog post about that story and get it published by as many bloggers as possible so word will get out. Bloggers will thank twice about stealing content if they know the possibility of arrest exists. FEAR is a great weapon if used properly