Update Jan 3: When I looked at 7:30am this morning, the MagazineLife.net was off-line. Kudos to Dreamhost (and all those that notified them) for taking swift action!! I will freely admit to taking a significant amount of pleasure from seeing these sites shut down.
Sigh… splogger’s suck. What is a “splog”? Why it’s a “spam blog” — a blog that shamelessly steals content and reposts it as their own. Typically these sites are chocked full of AdSense adds, affiliate links, or some other way to generate revenue for the thief.
In other words, these lowlifes use content written by others for their own financial gain.
One called MagazineLife.net popped up yesterday, swiping dozens of posts from here and many others across the real estate blogiverse. I must say that they chose some excellent blogs to steal from — Kris Berg, Rain City Guide, Bloodhound, Jim Duncan, Jonathan Miller, Condo Blog — to name a few.
These asshats take a URL like “PhoenixRealEstateGuy.com/Amazing-Post” and rename it to “MagazineLife.net/Amazing-Post”. Of course they are too stupid to change internal links — which result in pingbacks to the real author’s blog — thereby alerting them to the theft and leaving a wide open bread crumb trail right back to the violator’s abode. How idiotic is that?
So steal this post oh great twerps running MagazineLife.net. In the mean time, emails have already been sent to your host and Google (the host may actually do something. Sadly, Google doesn’t ever seem to care), and I’ll be working on a formal DMCA notice. Fortunately I have a good DMCA template from the last time we shut one of these numbskulls down.
By the way, if anyone is ever looking for information on how to stop Internet plagiarism, you must stop by Plagiarism Today — it is jammed full of incredibly helpful information and Johnathan Bailey is a Prince among men.
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I just used your template. Thanks! It looks like the content is already coming down.
It seems that all of our content has been taken down – what was that – five take-down notices and it was accomplished in less than 8 hours?
Looks like all our content is still there…
http://www.magazinelife.net/category/home-and-mortgage/
D*mn! I swear it wasn’t there an hour ago.
I know this feeling… someone stealed content form my old site as well.
all you have to do is put on your site some rights document and maybe talk to a lawyer about it.
good luck!
I could not agree more. Jonathan is a great guy and his blog plagiarismtoday is indeed worth spending a lot of time on.
I am appalled at what has happened to you and I fully endorse your views, language and the proposed course of action. It is however a pity that Google does not seem to care. I wonder if they are listening!
Well, as of 7:30am today, our little splogger buddies appear to be off-line….
Kudos to Dreamhost for taking swift action!
Dreamhost works fast !! Now I think I should host on them instead cause mine is giving me trouble…
Sorry to do that. I will delete all your and others’ content. I will not do that since google or dreamhost blocks me. I will do it because you are right.
Have a nice day.
Congratulations.
great!!!!!!
Nothing worse then spammers. They are a waste of bandwidth. I guess Dream host is getting better. I tried them once before an had a difficult experience to say the least maybe I’ll go back.
I hate sploggers, they ruin the blogosphere.
Yep seems like everyone is trying to be a big blogger and stealing peoples bandwidth, mass commenting, etc just because they can’t create great content.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.