Friday, February 15, 2008
Content Theft
I wonder if any of the other bloggers who read my site have ever had any trouble with content theft.
I've had trouble for some time now with bandwidth theft, hotlinking, and sometimes I check my server details and try to change code so that my hosted images aren't easily stolen.
But imagine my surprise when I followed this URL and saw that someone was not only hotlinking to my images, but actually stealing whole posts.
(I wrote that kitten-stomping bit as a farcical commentary about my tendency to be offensive two and a half years ago. This post and this one have been hijacked, too.)
Man. Man, oh man.
I gotta invest in some code that prevents hotlinking ... and maybe I should think about copyrighting, too.
By the way, with '08 a PotUS election year, it's probably not surprising that, as of now, my most commonly hotlinked image is this one:
I happen to think that's a pretty funny graphic, so I left it up with the original file name ... albeit with the URL tag you see above. If people are going to be sharing the "Hillary Clinton Is Batboy's Mom" image, I guess I deserve credit for it.
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Permalink -- Posted by Darrell at 20:07 
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Several things to talk about. First, this issue is VERY common, usually it is done by an automated scraper but this case could actual be an act of human plagiarism.
Second, there is no need to invest in copyrighting as all works are copyright protected the second they are fixated into a tangible medium of expression. There is nothing else that you need to do to have your works saved.
Third, if you want, I can help you get this site removed if you wish, I haven't looked into it yet, but there are ways to pull down infringing sites without contacting an attorney.
Finally, if at all possible, I wouldn't link to the site, even in a negative sense. Not only does it drive traffic there but search engines don't understand good linking versus bad linking and may rank that site higher than even you base, in part, on your link love.
Please let me know if there is anything that I can dot help!
Second, there is no need to invest in copyrighting as all works are copyright protected the second they are fixated into a tangible medium of expression. There is nothing else that you need to do to have your works saved.
Third, if you want, I can help you get this site removed if you wish, I haven't looked into it yet, but there are ways to pull down infringing sites without contacting an attorney.
Finally, if at all possible, I wouldn't link to the site, even in a negative sense. Not only does it drive traffic there but search engines don't understand good linking versus bad linking and may rank that site higher than even you base, in part, on your link love.
Please let me know if there is anything that I can dot help!
yea, there's multiple sites that have been stealing my post...
the only thing that i do like about it, is that i frequently post links to my own site in my post, and so when these sites steal my post, it increases my google rank for these post.
the only thing that i do like about it, is that i frequently post links to my own site in my post, and so when these sites steal my post, it increases my google rank for these post.
I read about this happening before to Jeff on A Golden World, but as far as I know, no one has ever lifted "ees naht a toobah" or any of the other stellar writing on my site. Maybe you should take the theft as a complement to your good writing. :)
Putting your URL in your photos is a great idea though.
Putting your URL in your photos is a great idea though.
It's happened to me a time or two. In those cases I emailed the offender and asked them to host it themselves. And they did, even linking to me for teh credit. Now I don't think anyone has ever ripped a whole post from me. That would bother me a bit.
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