Caught: They Stole my Blog Post
It didn’t take me long to notice this — somebody posted my How to improve Wordpress SEO article on their site. They did, however, give a credit link back to my site — which is odd to me, since they stole the website content.
Update 2.8.2009
The party who took the content has rectified the situation. Apparently the hosting company contacted the party in lieu of contacting me, and we worked things out. I have removed all references to the website which was hosting the content as it is no longer pertinent. However, any non-website specific info I will leave in place.
Now, so far, finding out the website owner’s contact information and web hosting company behind this has been pretty easy — I did a whois on the domain, and though the hotmail contact email bounced back to me, identifying the web hosting provider was super-simple in this case.
The part that I was interested in was the nameservers, at least primarily, to see if I could identify the hosting company behind the website. Which, for this website, the nameservers were pointed at Brinkster.com — so that’s where I headed.
I made a simple request on Saturday, Jan. 24th about 10:30pm US Eastern time to have the hosting company remove the content from that website. I sent it to the abuse department, so I figure that, hopefully, it’ll get taken care of tomorrow (Monday).
I will update this page as things happen — good or bad.
By the way, jQuery is cool and I detected this content theft with my plagiarism detection tool.
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Since the site appears to be hosted within the U.S. you’ll likely need to file a DMCA notice before the work is removed. If you need a template for that, you can find one on my site.
Let me know if there is anything that I can do to help!
Thanks. I may need to send a proper DMCA takedown notice — it’s been three days and the abuse department hasn’t responded, in any capacity, yet. I included DMCA info without the proper request… but maybe Brinkster.com, or the service that manages their servers (if they aren’t self-managed), is slow.
the article is removed, but if you viewed the cashed page in google you will find that he added a back link to you in the bottom of the page (read full story)
so why you are angry!!!
I’m “angry” because a 3rd party stole my content and placed it on their website. My expertise, my effort , my insight, and some other website is benefiting. It appears as though Brinkster’s abuse department doesn’t do much of anything — the article has not been removed. I’m going to Godaddy/Wild West next, then I’m sending a DMCA to search engines. However, maybe this will serve as a good example of why it’s not a good idea to steal content from others. Maybe it’s a misunderstanding on your end, but I think I’ve been patient — it’s been a couple of weeks and I haven’t even contacted Google and the like yet.