Comments on: What to do When Someone Steals Your Blog’s Content

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:56:56 +0000

problem solved, as the scraping stopped today & all of my content was removed from their archives.

what did i do?
phone call and e-mail to domain name registrar
e-mail to web host service
e-mail to the adsense people, who e-mailed me back and said it’s not their business.

By: Gary

Gary — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:32:18 +0000

I’m dealing with this right now. I like the idea of approaching advertisers. the company that the domain name is registered to doesn’t seem like it’s going to be of much help, so chasing the income source is a good idea.

By: Mary

Mary — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:09:59 +0000

Thanks Darren,

There are several sites that do ‘mashups’: One has taken the first 50 -100 words verbatim of my articles, plus my links and publish them ‘as is.’ with a link to me, where noone will bother with. since my entire post is there for others to use.

Such websites receive link flow back to THEM, not my web site. I feel shortchanged.

It looks like it’s possible to leverage other websites with 100% other’s work.

I’m not sure what to do: is this legal? I’m not happy about it. thanks.

By: Kingsley Tagbo

Kingsley Tagbo — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:24:35 +0000

Thanks Darren,

I just found an individual who rippep up 4-5 different posts from my blog. I was wondering how to approach the issue until I saw your post.

Your post gives me the confidence to face the problem. I will let you know how it goes and if you want, I will post a copy of the email I am sending to the web master right now!

By: Tillerman

Tillerman — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 01:22:06 +0000

I have noticed lately that some people have been “stealing” my content and I have to say that I am bigly hugely flattered that they value my mumbled jottings enough to copy them.

By: Bloggism

Bloggism — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 00:44:49 +0000

well Daren i am not such a good writer, if someone steal my content it will be a great mistake for them:P

If i find out i will just drop a e-mail to remove that content, or at least note that he/she borrowed that from me. It definitely hurts but very little could be done, creative commons is effective but not everywhere.