Take back the NET – stop the copyright thieves

I hate to write a post like this, but here goes:

If you are seeing this post and image on any site other than Celebrity Scoop http://www.feverishthoughts.com/celebrity/ then you are viewing a STOLEN copy of my post and image.

You are probably viewing it on a site that is called a Splog. That’s a site that steals other peoples posts from their blogs and websites, and often calls the stolen post their own work, although some do list where they originally got the post.

The site that copied this post did not ask my permission to copy my work. They are in violation of copyright laws.

If there is an image in the stolen post, they not only stole my image, but they are stealing the sites bandwidth too! That’s called hot-linking and it’s very poor netiquette not to mention also a copyright violation.

These sites are usually full of Google Adsense ads, and they are created just for the purpose of ripping off Google and all of the advertisers who use Adsense. Google’s advertisers and publishers should be extremely angry with these people. They are raising the price of advertising for advertisers and lowering the pay per click for legitimate Adsense users.

If you are the post thief who’s stealing my work and you are reading this message remove my feed from your site right now! All you are doing is creating duplicate content on the internet and it’s going to cause problems for both of our sites as far as page rank and Google site indexing goes.

Help me take back the net!

If you see this post on a site that it doesn’t belong on (see top of post), or if you discover that your own work has been stolen:

1. Please visit whois.net and type in the domain name for the site. This will tell you who the web hosting company for splog is. Visit the site host and make a complaint!
2. The Whois information might also give you the thieves real name, email address, home address and phone number – do with that whatever you please.
3. If the site is full of Google Adsense ads go to Google and report the site as a spammer.
   • a- List the site in the box that says “The specific web page or site that is misbehaving:”
   • b- Tick the box below that, that says “Duplicate site or pages”
   • c- Then explain what the problem is in the comment section below. Be sure to say that the site has stolen content and appears to have been created just for the purpose of making money and ripping off Adsense.

If we keep complaining to web hosting companies and to Google they’ll start to work on better ways to stop these thieves in their tracks.

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If someone has been copying your work please feel free to “borrow” the “Stop stealing my site feed” image from this site. Just be sure to right click over it and save it to your own computer. Do not link directly to the image in this post or else you too will be stealing my bandwidth.

In the last two weeks almost every single one of my sites has had these splogs stealing their posts every single day. I’ve taken the measures that I’ve listed above in each case – plus I’ve taken my complaints and actions further in some cases.

From now on, whenever a site starts stealing my work I’m going to post a copy of this post on the affected site. Please feel free to use my idea – just change the content slightly please as we don’t want to create even more duplicate posts now do we?

Thanks for your help!

Now back to our regular style of posts.