Someone stealing my content

Greetings one and all,

This must be a topic that has been raised before, so hopefully there will be a very simple answer to this question (here is hoping!)

Okay so I run a lotto blog...yesterday I wrote this article......this morning Google alerts Pings me to say someone has copied the article and put it on their site.

Arghh so annoying, I spend ages writting fresh unique content for my site. And now someone is copying it onto there site.

Okay so here is what I have done so far....

....Domain Whois... collected the persons email, and sent an email asking for it to be removed. They live in Poland so I hope they can read english, I guess they can as the site is in English.

Following on from the whois...I used the IP to find the hosting company, and have also emailed the abuse department of the hosting company asking for the content to be removed.

Is there anything else I can do? Surely sites can't be allowed just to copy content?

 

If you find that another site is duplicating your content, you can file a DMCA request to claim ownership of the content and request removal of the other site from Google's index. Follow this link http://www.google.com/dmca.html

 

Thanks for that, I will be donig this so far no contact from website (who has sinced published 2 more of my articles) or from the hosting company. The hosting company is in the USA,so I guess they are just getting up. I wonder what the odds are that they will remove the content or the site from their hosting.

Am I right in thinking that this will count as duplicate content, and damage my site too?

 

So far 4 articles/post now copied. No response from the webmaster or the host provider. I do find it strange that the host provider is not replying. Ah well I guess now starts what looks like a lengthy DMCA process.

 

Sounds like the site that's duplicating your content is an autoblog. The autoblog might have been set up to pull feeds from your site; that way, whenever you publish a new post, it gets automatically published in the autoblog too.

The suggestion given by WorksForWeb sounds like the best thing to do, so far as I know.

 

You should give up on trying to contact the blog owner and file a bunch of paperwork to get it remove asap.

 

If you believe that the evidence is clear enough, report it as a DMCA violation.

 

I sent him a 5 day warning last night, he wont reply. I did get a reply from the hosting company this morning which is a positive step.

I guess as I sent the 5 day warning, I now need to give him/her 5 days, then do the complaint to the SE and IP.

Interesting after researching this, if google agree it is yours. They dont show that page, but display the DMCA complaint letter saying this site is in voliation of copyright law for all to see.

And it continues.....

 

if you're losing a lot of money, you could try tips.fbi.gov

 

Yup DMCA! asking vs. providing the DMCA document is two completely different things. People ignore regular emails and contacts, but DMCA people will listen to as it typically makes you more serious. Instead of telling the bully "stop picking on me" and you are standing alone, its like telling the bully "stop picking on me" -- and you have a big scary guy standing behind you. People dont like lawyers and legal documents, and if you present it and they still ignore seek legal action.

 

there are feed plugins that automatically fetch content from other websites. but normally they give credit to original website. you can approach search engines to remove them from the index or you can file a petition against the site. as of now, there is no other way we ca challenge this

 

you can disable right click on your posts and pages. This can stop content stealing up to some extent, may not help autoblog sw to stop extracting content. There are tools for this, I am using one such tool for my wordpress blog.
Its a plugin called "Blog Protector Final".

 

well whatever you do can not really stop them but may lower...

 

What you can do while the site hasn't been taken down yet is to make sure that the content you posted have actual urls back to your site. In that way, google will know that you are the original source of the article and google can give you credit for the backlink. If those are done by autoblogs, then this setup will work.

 

Become a premium member at copyscape. They will handle the issue

 

dont worry.. where ever your stolen content will be published.. the stealer will suffer in that case for plagerism .... hehehe

 

Join a member at Creative Common. They will handle the issue! otherwise you can contact local cyber crime cell.

 

Why are you so upset?

Leave it.

The re-posting of your content won't hurt you as long as your post gets indexed by google first. Big media sites always syndicate each other's content. The person that posted it first gets all of the search engine love. The copier ends up in supplemental results (Google's bin for duplicates).

If you're really concerned about it you can use a plugin for Wordpress (I forget the name) that automatically embeds a link to your site whenever someone copies and pastes anything from your site.

 

send a DMCA to their hosting provider.

 

hi, i'm curious how did you configure the google alert to ping you when the duplicate content is found.