I’m Not Welcome To The Website That Copies My Content

One sad thing about the blogosphere is that it is really hard to get rid of spam blogs and content copier. I spend a lot of time hunting down these sites, make sure the content don’t get duplicated resulting Google supplemental index; I mean it is fine that you featured it, take 30% of whatever I wrote and provide a link back. Please do not copy 100% and paste it in your blog. It’s really not appreciated, even if there is a link back. I’m sure no bloggers would like that. You spend hours (sometimes days to weeks) or research to come out with a content, but these content copiers spend like what, 10 minutes?, and republish your content.

I’ve recently sent an e-mail to one blogger (which I shall not disclose his name and blog url here) demanding to either remove my content totally or remain 30% and provide a link back. Well I guess he took it too personal, and thus replying me this email:

Hello ,
i thought you would care for share , but seems you do everything not for helping people :)
may be it just for money :D
oh an info for you .. you share + me share = all people will get better info
anyway post deleted also your site deleted from my bookmarks plus im not welcoming you to visit my website anymore ;)
Thanks for your notic
DONT REPLY TO THIS MESSEGE !!

I’d like to say, first and formost, you blatantly copy from head to toe, even hot linking to my images. That’s bandwidth stealing. Secondly I’m definitely writing to help, but not helping you to making your blogging effort easier.

You are right, generating revenue from blogging is one motivation that keeps me going. That’s not really something new, isn’t it?

I’m sorry that I’ve just lost a reader.

I’ve read an interesting article named What Do you Do When Someone Steal Your Content by Lorelle Van Fossen. Very interesting. So how do you prevent people from copying your content?

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David August 7th, 2007

Who is so unethical???!!!

Please respect others before respect yourself.
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Friedbeef August 7th, 2007

Here’s a tip to contact copiers who don’t post any contact details on their site… just whois their site to get the email contact, then write to ‘em

…unless they are on private registration… then you have a ’slight’ problem.
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lilian August 7th, 2007

To add on to James’s tips – Use the f word and scream, “I am going to Big G now!!!’. It works for me so far. But then, my content is nothing to shout about. Still, some do use those nasty plugin to autoblog and they cheesed me off especially when they pick words like s e x and put things on their p o r n blog eventhough my post doesn’t fit there.
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Lorelle August 8th, 2007

I had one mindless plagiarist who gave me grief for asking them to prune down the copyright violation of the full post to an excerpt with credit link. She screamed (in caps) that I was being rude, cruel, and unfair as she tool the information and reposted it on her blog to help out a young friend who was dying of cancer. She wanted to make his smile at my post.

I told her that he would have smiled just as much if she had just gave him the link, and respected her more for not taking what didn’t belong to her.

I told her clearly, “Ask first. I might have said yes.”

Assume everything on the web is copyrighted. Ask first. Check their copyright policy. You might find the answer is yes.

Thanks for helping spread the word!
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danny August 8th, 2007

Sad to see that he does not know the difference between stealing and sharing. Thinking of being robin hood i guess…

Plus his English is damn powerful….
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Internet Marketing Home Business August 8th, 2007

LOL. Danny, I like your reply.

Hong blaaaadeeer, where have you been man. Been trying to reach you tru’ skype. I just completed the ebook…damn “kow” long and detailed man. Pls skype me when u r free.

Cheers everyone

Matt Ng
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JennyHow August 9th, 2007

usually the ones who copied contents will leave a rude reply and give you a long long list of explanations at times :(

I encounter that on eBay too :(
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syahid ali August 9th, 2007

net plagiarism at its worst. lol.
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Socrates Rudy Sirait August 9th, 2007

Sharing something from stealing, lol….
What a funny (n idiot) dude..
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Ashish Mohta August 9th, 2007

Thats funny man., Anyways Most of the time its no use so i just let it go if they don’t respond to my email, If they hotlinked, I just rename the image and there they go.

1. You cant do any thing if the user is on the blogger platform. I tried notifying google and They said they will take step but nothing happened.

2. If they are not on blogger, its easy. If they dont respond to your email, find out where the are hosted. Then email the hosting service with bot the original and old url. 90% chance they will get banned.

This happened really with me and I was able to put one blog down and he was banned for questions.
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MixOughT August 12th, 2007

Hi all people
its me who did all this things … but i did not steal anything i just wanted to share the posts on my blog and i swear i forgot to put the link for the source of the post ” as usual ” i swear always i post the source of my post if im not the OWNER but that time i really forgot it
my reply on his message was rude i know it but i was so angry because he talked to me like im stealer he even did not ask me to add the source because i forgot it i swear and you can look at my blog to see my posts all the posts i bring it from other always have the source link even i put the link of the site i brought the info from it …
i forgot to put the link because my blog still new blog and im busy with themes and plugins ” i change every day my theme ”
anyway im sorry if understanded me in wrong way
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hongkiat August 12th, 2007

I guess you missed the point here. When you blatantly duplicate the original content (including hot-linking the images) , it is not welcomed, even if you link back to the original source. That’s not the correct way to share information.

My email to you was pretty simple; I demand to have the content taken down. Since you confronted, perhaps you don’t mind me reveal the email. Anyway that’s how I write to anyone who duplicates contents.

http://www.screencast.com/t/FdygijkXhA3

Anyway, have a nice day.
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MixoughT August 12th, 2007

well may be im wrong anyway im sorry and it will not happen again hope you forgive me man
im sorry again and not only for you , for all comments :)
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Internet Marketing Home Business August 12th, 2007

Hmm.. looks like he is really sorry,man. People do make mistakes but as long as ppl admit and apologies, why not just be friends now. Share the love….LOL!

It’s rare to see ppl admit and say sorry even after the heat of the moment. That quite a step and a man to admit. :) I take my hat off you for apologizing to Hong.

At least you are being sincere and understood, unlike others that i’ve met. Still telling me off about my so called “rudeness” cause he couldn’t understand my point so many times. :(

I even got a guy who put my direct download link to one of my products on his blog without asking me permission. At least he could have put the main page link and not the direct download link and making it like his own book to give away. (i do share, but only from my main page and not the direct download link therefor skipping my blog altogether).

Peace

Matt Ng
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MixoughT August 12th, 2007

Thanks Matt for your nice reply , im happy my sitiuation is understanded
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DB Ferguson August 13th, 2007

I think it depends on the intent of the content. My blog is a fan site blog – obviously I’m not generating a lot of my own content but aggregating news from all over the place. So I often link to another blog’s content with a huge chunk of content quoted. If the post is very short (4-5 sentences), I’ll post close to the entire content of the blog entry. Here’s an example of that: http://www.nofactzone.net/?p=2000. The whole post was only four sentences, so I posted the majority of the original post because it was relevant.

However, in almost all cases, I leave a comment in the post, saying Great content, I linked this on my blog!, with a link to my new post featuring their content. And normally, especially when it comes to original content, exclusive scoop or fan art, I ask permission before I post – it’s the polite thing to do. Because my blog is considered the top authority in my particular niche, most people are not only enthusiastic about being linked and quoted but feel a little honoured that their post or their story tip made the blog.

I also have minimal montetizing of my blog, so I’m not making money off of other people’s content. Plus, I normally add onto the content with more relevant information, such as I did with the above post (we added a video of the show to the content of the linked blog post).

So what I’m saying is, I see your point, but I also think that not everyone who takes posts and takes them often is up to no good. I just think that swapping content can be done ethically and with benefit of all involved. It just takes asking permission, acknowledging the content linkage, and thanking the original author both in their post and in your own.
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DB Ferguson August 13th, 2007

Also, about the hotlinking: I’ve invested in a Flickr Pro account. Virtually all of my pictures that I use for my blog are stored there. That way, if someone decides to hotlink my picture, I’m not down any bandwidth.

And I always download the picture and put it on Flickr before posting onto my blog, not because I’m worried about hotlinking and stealing bandwidth, but because I’m afraid something will happen down the road and I’ll lose the pictures.
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khai August 14th, 2007

http://www.copyscape.com

its nice tool for webmaster
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Dwight Stegall January 15th, 2008

I bet he’d be very happy to talk to you if you mentioned “Law Suit”. :)
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