Help, I'm being copied

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Silvers, Aug 16, 2008.

  1. #1
    Just started a new blog ( torrentclients.wordpress.com ) , made some posts ... but when I logged again , I saw an incoming link , clicked it and found a surprise, a noob was copying my content , entirely .

    Original post : http://torrentclients.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/vuze-former-azureus/
    Copied post : http://pluginground.com/?p=3235

    Original post : http://torrentclients.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/abc/
    Copied post : http://pluginground.com/?p=3219

    Original post : http://torrentclients.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/bittorrent/
    Copied post : http://pluginground.com/?p=3220

    Original post : http://torrentclients.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/utorrent/
    Copied post : http://pluginground.com/?p=3222

    Help me , what to do with this noob ?

    I used who.is and found an yahoo address , added it on Yahoo Messenger, but no one responded ...
    Tryed to report it to the web hosting , but the web hosting page isn't loading ...

    And now I leaved a comment on a post on that blog ... hopefully the owner will see it .
     
    Silvers, Aug 16, 2008 IP
  2. KingPin08

    KingPin08 Banned

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    #2
    Is a scraper, not much you can do about it really. You could disable RSS.

    Rather than look at the negatives use the scraper to you're advantage.

    KP
     
    KingPin08, Aug 16, 2008 IP
  3. oregonthunder2

    oregonthunder2 Active Member

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    #3
    I would not worry about this if he is just using a feed. I would send him a email however is he is doing a actual copy and paste job.

    If he is using a feed, that will help your blog in the long run.

    If you feel strongly about it, you can always contact his hosting company and report him for copyright infringement. Usually the company will make him remove it.
     
    oregonthunder2, Aug 16, 2008 IP
  4. ninjacluster

    ninjacluster Peon

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    Don't worry about it. It's the internet. Anything goes. :)
     
    ninjacluster, Aug 16, 2008 IP
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    chiky_cin Banned

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    #5
    goto copyscape.com
    they have some link saying :been copied?
    though i havent tried it myself...looks like a good option. try it.
     
    chiky_cin, Aug 16, 2008 IP
  6. Silvers

    Silvers Well-Known Member

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    Well he isn't using the rss feed , he copies my posts word with word, image with image ...
    I have setted the RSS feeds only to show summary description , he copied all the description and pictures also :(
     
    Silvers, Aug 19, 2008 IP
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    Chuman Well-Known Member

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    As someone said earlier go to copyscape.com and use their copy protection system :)
     
    Chuman, Aug 19, 2008 IP
  8. Silvers

    Silvers Well-Known Member

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    is it free ? from what I remember , you have to pay some money ...
     
    Silvers, Aug 19, 2008 IP
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    order a bunch of pizzas to his house. thatll show him
     
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    MELLA Peon

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    That sucks. There's nothing worse than you spending time writing content for some asshole to copy it all.

    This happened to me once, I even watermarked the pictures and the sneaky fuckers cropped it out of all 50 of them.

    A friend of mine started a business and had a website properly made up with lots of content when along came a copycat with the same business that was obviously way too lazy to write anything himself and so he just copy and pasted the ENTIRE website. Moral of the story: Check the contact information, email address and phone numbers before you do that. My friend got double the business. :)

    Sorry way off topic, hope you find a way to sort it out.
     
    MELLA, Aug 23, 2008 IP