Oooh

Posted on June 11th, 2007 at 6:34pm

Does anyone recognise any of the following entries:
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/157.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/152.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/132.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/133.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/134.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/77.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/78.html - Do you see the smoke coming out of my ears yet?
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/80.html
http://news.pagesforyou.info/read/81.html

There might be more but I got bored.

I know having your feed ripped and then reproduced on some other site is a pretty normal thing for blogs, (I had it done to me when I had never-his.org) but I'm wondering if there's a way to stop it from happening; I'll probably be the one getting penalised in search engines for duplicate content.

At the moment, my fighting back method is to include a copyright notice, a link to the homepage of my site and a link to the actual entry but I'm thinking there's probably a better way to fight back.
Any ideas?

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2 Comments on "Oooh"...

Anna commented on June 12th, 2007 at 10:11pm. (Permalink?)

That is just really...insane? Is that the word? Anyway, their life isn't yours, so why copy? Unless they have absolutely no brain at all. I'd take it as a compliment...that person thinks your life is so interesting that they want to pass it off as their own.

David commented on June 15th, 2007 at 1:12am. (Permalink?)

I had my content taken by the exact same website. I ended up contacting their host with a take down request, but due to my adding a copyright notice to my feed they seemed to have done it anyway.

If you want to contact their host, the following email address works: abuse@hqhost.net

There's also this WordPress plugin that I used to put a copyright notice inside my feed. It also assigns a digital ID, which allows you to track your posts in search engines and blog searches. Another help in finding out whose copying your content.