I am a design engineer at Saturday, February 10th, 2007
Content theft
I noticed via a pingback to one of my posts that someone is scraping all of my blog posts, publishing them at netscape9.com, and displaying Adsense ads next to them. I don’t know which route I should take first: get their Google Adsense account closed for violating the TOS, contact GoDaddy about the user using [...]
I noticed via a pingback to one of my posts that someone is scraping all of my blog posts, publishing them at netscape9.com, and displaying Adsense ads next to them. I don’t know which route I should take first: get their Google Adsense account closed for violating the TOS, contact GoDaddy about the user using the Netscape trademark without permission, or get their hosting shutoff for copyright violations. I think I’ll do all three. :-D
Update: The owner of the site offers some clarification.
February 10th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
I’m just trying to work out my site design……..will not be using your material and it is already down.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
http://addmonkey.wordpress.com/2007/02/04/blog-content-stolen/
Lookie, happening here too. You can do something.
February 17th, 2007 at 7:23 am
This happened to me recently.
The funny thing is that I publish under a Creative Commons license that allows for scraping, as long as you provide attribution, don’t change it and don’t make money.
The person in question changed my content (one link in the content), gave me no credit and profited off of it as it hit the Digg home page and got tons of Stumble traffic.
His blog is now gone :)