Comments on: Website plagiarism strikes again http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/website-plagiarism-strikes-again/ Random musings from the radical feminist Christian antiracist left - some having to do with Ubuntu Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:45:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: greg http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/website-plagiarism-strikes-again/comment-page-1/#comment-6160 greg Sun, 12 Jul 2009 23:07:22 +0000 http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/?p=1466#comment-6160 This has happened to many of my websites... in fact, it happens to all of my websites. The only thing that can be done is a DMCA request. Lucky for me all the people who steal from me rely on Google to make money. People who steal content aren't concerned with your about page. Many of these people make hundreds of websites and keep them up as long as no one complains. The real failure here is on Google's part. Google ignores stolen content and makes advertising money off your stolen content until you, the owner of the content, files a signed, official, written, legal document with Google. Google is happy to promote and profit from stolen content, and they make it quite difficult to get it all removed. If someone steals 200 pages of content you have to send Google a list of each page URL that is stolen, and what the offending URL is that matches your stolen content. This has happened to many of my websites… in fact, it happens to all of my websites. The only thing that can be done is a DMCA request. Lucky for me all the people who steal from me rely on Google to make money.

People who steal content aren’t concerned with your about page. Many of these people make hundreds of websites and keep them up as long as no one complains.

The real failure here is on Google’s part. Google ignores stolen content and makes advertising money off your stolen content until you, the owner of the content, files a signed, official, written, legal document with Google.

Google is happy to promote and profit from stolen content, and they make it quite difficult to get it all removed. If someone steals 200 pages of content you have to send Google a list of each page URL that is stolen, and what the offending URL is that matches your stolen content.

]]> By: 123 http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/website-plagiarism-strikes-again/comment-page-1/#comment-6149 123 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:42:05 +0000 http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/?p=1466#comment-6149 I'd suggest include abridged preferences (no hotlinking, etc) in an "about" page for this blog. I’d suggest include abridged preferences (no hotlinking, etc) in an “about” page for this blog.

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