I haven't been sleeping well because one of my more popular sites is being hit with duplicate content penalties and it's bothering the heck out of me, so this morning at 3:30, while I should have been sleeping, I was searching my one of my website's keywords on the web. This will happen when your site's revenue has been cut by a third. In addition to the duplicates that I know about, I found some Granny blogger on Blogspot had lifted 70% of one of my most popular articles, quoted the name of my site, but no link. Someone named Paul Dean in Malta had one of my original ebooks on the web. By original, I mean I wrote the book from scratch and have never allowed it to be sold by any site I don't control. He'd slugged in some of his own pictures and had added a few phrases to the first chapter, and then just fell down on the job and had the rest of the book with no revisions just sitting there for anyone to copy. Something that I've managed to avoid since 2003. There are enough MMR and affiliate books on this subject - stealing mine was stupid on his part. By 4:15A, I'm writing a cease and desist email. I was so pissed, I considered by-passing all reasonable responses and contacting the search engines and his ISP to ban his site. But I'm not that sleep deprived yet, I will do things by the book on this. By 5:20A, I've filled out a Google a reconsideration form, because enough is enough. I've removed all the duplicate content I can. Is it just me? Or does everyone go through these things? Pity party - table for one!