Comments on: Dear NoDebtMortgage.com: Please Stop Stealing my Content

By: Neala

Neala — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 11:10:53 +0000

One of the websites have been ripping off my blog content. I've emailed and it has done no good. So, what I've done is send a note to ICANN (as well as the president of the company that registered the domain name.

It may come to nothing, but ICANN requires correct and current contact information.

FWIW, here's what I sent:

The domain http://www.moredirections.com has been stealing content from one of my sites. I checked WhoIs and found that their contact information is fabricated, incorrect, made-up and a sham.

This is, I believe, contrary to the rule requiring accurate and current information for all domains.

There is no Turtle Island, Hawaii, and there is no zipcode 88888 in Hawaii.

What I'd like is to have my material removed, and a financial penalty imposed for violation of copyright law (and generally being a lousy citizen of the internet).

The information supplied is:

Registrant:

StrongCord

First House

Turtle Island, Hawaii 88888

United States

Registered through: The Image Studio

Domain Name: MOREDIRECTIONS.COM

Created on: 02-May-08

Expires on: 02-May-09

Last Updated on: 02-May-08

Administrative Contact:

Cord, Strong x@strongcord.com

StrongCord

First House

Turtle Island, Hawaii 88888

United States

(509) 766-9991

Technical Contact:

Cord, Strong x@strongcord.com

StrongCord

First House

Turtle Island, Hawaii 88888

United States

(509) 766-9991

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.STRONGCORD.COM

NS2.STRONGCORD.COM

I would appreciate any help you can provide.

Thank you.

By: Jay - The Phoenix Re

Jay - The Phoenix Re — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:57:12 +0000

"Spam" -

Turning comments to dofollow is hardly spamming the search engines, and has absolutely nothing to do with some splog stealing my content and violating copyright laws.

"Every realtor" is spamming this site with comments? Really. There are what 1,200,000 realtors. I hardly think they are all here leaving comments.

What I chose to do with my blog is my business. *IF* it hurts me in search engines, that is no ones fault but my own. How this relates to content theft is beyond me.

By: Spam

Spam — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:29:46 +0000

Funny -

You will go down spamming the search engines with your follow comments on this site Jay! I count muliple other offenses other than spam that will sink the ship! You have follow on comments and every realtor is spamming the site with comments. Bye bye rankings very very soon. You soon will experience GOOGLE PENALTY = Ranking #100 or lower for your key words!!!

By: Dallas Real Estate B

Dallas Real Estate B — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:08:57 +0000

Jay, nothing worse than someone taking your work and duplicating over the net. This is equal to grand theft auto in my book, which by the way happended to me last weekend. Tahoe was stole while sitting in a Starbucks parking lot in the middle of the afternoon. I came across this site a couple days ago, you might check out if you have some problems.

cybertriallawyer.com

Kenneth Cox – Dallas Broker

By: Evil Fruit Lord

Evil Fruit Lord — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:07:47 +0000

I believe the same guy is ripping off my entire blog wholesale on another site. Let me know if you manage to make anything work. I've sent him a cease and desist letter which no doubt has simply disappeared into the void. I'm fairly sure the service provider in my case is ThePlanet.com (Strong Cord has other sites hosted there, and when in I ping the website address, the IP address it returns is there, according to whois.domaintools.com).

Next step is DMCA requests to ThePlanet and Google, who I'm hoping will both pull his AdSense account and delist his site (and hopefully all his other sites, but that's just wishful thinking, I'm sure).

By: Karen Rice

Karen Rice — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:53:45 +0000

Err, forgive that half coherent comment – sheesh. I'm only on coffee #2, so I should wait until I'm halfway done with cup #3 before commenting..

By: Karen Rice

Karen Rice — Wed, 14 May 2008 05:52:13 +0000

Can I say I agree with Trace? Unless they're saying they wrote the content or removing your original links then I have no problem. So what if they want to earn a few bucks on Adsense?

I have had one of my blogs get a lot of readers – funny that, because it was a blog about one of the least popular communities in the area, because it's not so "pretty" and doesn't have a slew of amenities. however, someone recently contacted me about the community.

This blog article was "pinged?" (I guess?) by someone who posted it on their site…full credit and links to me… I have no doubt that a lot of my traffic (Okay, so it's only 10 visitors but that's a lot to ME..LOL).

I have to wonder, did the person who contacted me about the community stumble upon my blog myself, or upon this splogger and then to my blog?

I don't know.

I suppose we can worry about these sploggers "competing with us" for our own content, but as long as the splogger isn't another real estate agent with their contact info all over the place, I don't worry about it too much.

Rambly, arent I?

By: Jay - The Phoenix Re

Jay - The Phoenix Re — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:34:35 +0000

@Charles (LVGuy) – it happens ALL the time. Daily really. Sometimes I just need to vent so I pick on the latest.

@Trace / @Ken – Given that Google indexes posts here within minutes after they are written, and given the incredible intelligence level of those inside the Googleplex, I'm not worried about them figuring out the origin. Heck, they probably know what I'm going to write before I do.

@Trace – Your focus on the positive is admirable! Nice site BTW!!

Incidentally, Mr/Ms T. Schilling has yet to respond to my email. Shocking!

By: Trace

Trace — Tue, 13 May 2008 16:17:55 +0000

Jay: well you are right the links are likely worth close to nothing…. was trying to use a bit of sleight of hand to focus on the positive.

Ken: I haven’t heard of recent issues with google having issues determining origin of content, but if there have been issues as of late, that is obviously a big deal. That’s why I mentioned earlier to make sure you’re pinging correctly…. my experience is that google has this sorted out and so if guys wanna scrape….I say let them, the truth is I don’t have a choice, I can’t humanly keep up with scrapers anyways…. there aren’t enough hours in the day… I can barely keep up with the guys that steal my entire 50 page websites at ipagio.com …. and these aren’t kids, these are companies with 50 plus employees that just want to save a thousand dollars or two.

By: Las Vegas High Rise

Las Vegas High Rise — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:03:58 +0000

I'm surprised it doesn't happen more often to you Jay. I've kept track of all of the sites that have stolen my content over the years, the file is getting pretty full. Usually it was a "hired webmaster" responsible but not always.