Comments on: Don’t be a Victim. Stop Content Thieves Dead in Their Tracks

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:40:13 +0000

Copyscape is the biggest crock of sh*t and waste of time out there when it comes to content theft. No one serious wastes their time with it. You get better results with a Google search of select text. and Copyscape can’t deal with one of the worst kinds of content theft out there — “rewrites” (illegal derivative works). If that’s the extend someone will go to defend their work, they’re pretty much asking for it to be stolen.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 08:48:39 +0000

Hi,

Use this link http://www.copyscape.com to check if content is stolen .. very easy and save time :)

Hope this would help :)

Bye..

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 17:17:58 +0000

Russ, Unfortunately I can’t speak to Australian copyright law, so I’m not sure what you can do. :(

Chances are good that it’s against his hosting company’s terms of service though, so send proof to them. They might give him a warning to remove it or eventually suspend the hosting account for terms violations.

By: Russell Aleksic

Russell Aleksic — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:45:15 +0000

Hi I’ve been robbed by a man!!!!! He stole all my wording and images as well as the web design intent. I run a small Heating and Cooling business in Melbourne Australia. I hooked up with this guy for about a year as a subcontractor and when we parted ways he got a web design business to steel my site which I evolved over five years and have all my old design notes. You can see my site http://www.anchorageair.com.au and the forged site http://www.airpower.net.au

Please help me!! I don’t know what to do to get him black listed and shut down…legally that is :-(( thanks in advance Russ from Melbourne Australia

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By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:14:24 +0000

And “idiots” they are!

By: Anne Wayman - About Freelance Writing

Anne Wayman - About Freelance Writing — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:40:45 +0000

This is truly helpful Jenn (why am I not surprised ;) ) and there are things here I didn’t know. I’ll be able to do a better job of following through with these idiots now.

Thanks.

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:45:26 +0000

I haven’t done it regularly recently. I used to make it a monthly thing for title searches. While looking at my monthly stats I’d run titles on the most popular to see if anything was swiped — the ones that I want to protect the most. After I finish my site updates on this and a few others, I’ll probably move from development mode to administrative mode, where I can have more time to deal with these things.

As for your name, try combining your name with a keyword from your site. Or better yet, just do your domain name. The thieves who are dumb enough to leave our names on it are usually the ones dumb enough to leave a link back, thinking that makes the theft okay.

By: Cathy Miller

Cathy Miller — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 19:36:17 +0000

These are great tips, Jenn! I had no idea what you could do. My problem with setting up a Google Alert with my name is that it’s so blasted common! It just might crash my computer. :-)

Do you routinely run your title searches or just when you suspect problems? Thanks again for the information.

By: Jennifer Mattern

Jennifer Mattern — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:07:31 +0000

Just another thought — it also wouldn’t stop what’s probably the most common form of content theft. That’s when people assume an RSS feed created for reader convenience is the same thing as a license to reproduce and profit from someone else’s work (it’s not). I can’t imagine this tool could stop that — if it did, it would also put the message in every time someone read a feed in their own feed reader and not just a splog.