Comments on: RSS Abuse, Duplicate Content and Parasite Websites

By: Tim, Anderson

Tim, Anderson — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:30:38 +0000

My site uses relative URL, Skweezer strips out my html to display all my content from their site they even duplicate Paypal pages, these bastard should be sued under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act for taking others work and displaying it in their own pages. What arrogant bastards, there is not a single link left to a single one of hundreds of my pages they display.

I am taking it up with Google and then taking legal action. I email those two addresses they arrogant mongrels did not reply when I first complained to them over a year ago.

These bastards are ripping off our hard earned content and displaying it as their own while removing all links back to the real content owner. Bastards.

Tim
http://www.hereticpress.com

By: Raymond

Raymond — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:25:05 +0000

I too have been fighting these sites for over a year now and they are killing my traffic. Every time I get the site back on top, they scrape it, and in days it is on twenty other sites. Feel free to contact me as a fellow webmaster who will do anything I can to help our cause.

Ray

By: Lenin Nair

Lenin Nair — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:45:47 +0000

Darren thanks for this post, I have added it to my latest post on copyright protection

By: Online Travel Help » Who Moved my Skweeze?

Online Travel Help » Who Moved my Skweeze? — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 20:08:48 +0000

[...] Said Darren Rowe of ProBlogger: Basically they are repackaging content of sites/blogs for viewing on PDAs and Phones. Not a bad idea in many respects – however they are taking complete posts and giving no real link backs. They are also stripping the advertisements from the sites also. [...]

By: Paul Westbrook

Paul Westbrook — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Someone was doing the same thing with my blog as well. I tried to get in touch with them to have my content removed.

They didn’t get back to me, so I decided to give them a different rss feed. Since I knew the ip address that was scraping my feed, I redirected it to a different one.

I wrote about this at: http://www.paulstimesink.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=301&blogId=2

By: Michael Moncur

Michael Moncur — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Here’s the IP address they use to pull your site’s content:

216.115.239.17

I strongly suggest blocking it, it’s much easier than political action and it gets the point accross. (If they start using different IPs or spoofing, it will just prove they’re up to no good.)

While it could be argued they’re providing a “service” rather than a copy of the site, if the copies get into Google it’s the same thing.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

If Google rank is a concern, perhaps it might be worth taking the issue of this site and others like it up with Google. My experience with their customer service has always been positive and they are publically committed to providing a useful search experience. Of course, the Google cache does the same thing in some ways, but a) doesn’t affect your search results b) links to your page c) doesn’t strip your ads or links. If nothing else, I’m sure if Google is made aware of the problem that they’ll treat the Skweezer site appropriately in not downgrading the original creators PR, etc.

By: Tom Hanna

Tom Hanna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Also, if Page Rank is a concern, you should probably consider removing the live link to Skweezer dot net in your post and replacing it with a text only reference.