Content theft just got worse
Related entries in Arieanna & Ianiv, Making Money with BlogsDo you notice any resemblance here:
My site - Lohan Groupie
Fraudulent site - http://lindsay-lohan.emmv.com/
Yep, it’s the same content. Right down to the categories, archives, tags and even Qumana footer. Simple copy paste of every bit of code I’ve ever produced. And I’m not their only target. The Desperate Housewives b5 blog is in their net too.
So, we’ve contacted their DNS with a legal notice. And I’ve emailed Technorati to stop following their tags (since they’ve stopped picking mine up and are showing theirs). And contacted Google to stop payment on ads profiting from my content.
This, indeed, is content theft at it’s worst. The person responsible has put time, thought and effort into the practice. It’s a nice looking site. Optimized for ads, in many programs. Contains photo galleries, blogroll (not including my site, of course), and a nice header. Not like most spam sites that are obvious as to their nature. This one "looks" valid and honest. Even has the audacity to put a copyright notice on the bottom of the site.
So, we’ll see how this progresses. Mean time, everything I write will instantly go there. Frustrating.
Tags: theft, blogging, content theft, copyright, spam
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January 18th, 2006 at 4:34 am
I have now removed http://www.lohangroupie.com/feed/ from my sites syndication links after reading this article. All blog entries linked directly to http://lohangroupie.com using the blog entry title. The Blogroll did include a link to lohangroupie.com which used Lindsay Lohan News as link text.
January 18th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
Hmmm… Seems to be a case of theft…BUT if you will have RSS feeds on your website without stating that the feeds are for personal use only… This kind of thing does happen.
It happened to me so I removed RSS feeds.
I little too easy to do unfortunately. When I realised it was happening to me, it took me less that an hour to se up a page that ’stole’ someones RSS feeds.
All done automatically too.
And I also tried to get the party banned from google but they said that the third party had done nothing wrong as I had made the feeds available and thats what RSS feeds were for.
Hope all goes well, and keep up the great Lohan work.
January 18th, 2006 at 11:57 pm
Thanks Gavin!
RSS is an integral part of a blog, but it does not by default mean it’s open to use by others. Ours in fact say otherwise.
Yeah, totally easy to steal. Right to do it? No. But, it’s a loop in the technology. What makes it easy to read makes it easy to steal.
And thanks on Lohan! hehe