Bloggers beware! There be Pirates abound!

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February 28, 2011 at 3:42 pm #164614

Thomas J. Johnson
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That’s shady…

February 28, 2011 at 3:54 pm #164613
Thomas J. Johnson
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Hope this helps:
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Registrant:
   Justin Phillips

   Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
   Domain Name: AZLANDSCAPE.COM

   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS981.HOSTGATOR.COM
      NS982.HOSTGATOR.COM


   For complete domain details go to:
   http://who.godaddy.com/whoischeck.aspx?Domain=AZLANDSCAPE.COM
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February 28, 2011 at 4:24 pm #164612

Paul Corsetti
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Thanks Thomas,

Hmmmm… maybe I should buy up all the remaining domain names with his business title and just list my blog posts and a little blurb about his site using my content….lol

I don’t want to lower myself to that level though…. but if his site remains up with my content I will list his business info on my blog post where I put all the plagiarizers in and shame them into taking down my design plans that they used…

This site marks the first time I have to deal with my written words and photographs being used without credit…

Paul

February 28, 2011 at 5:40 pm #164611

Thomas J. Johnson
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Contact godaddy.com they might be able to help you. Or track down Justin Phillips and leave a flaming bag of dog poo on his front porch.

February 28, 2011 at 6:38 pm #164610

Jason T. Radice
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Quick question…

Did you copyright your work at the bottom of you blog page? If so, you have a legal case. They appear to have advertising on the site, and therefore they are a commercial entity. Since they are making money off of your work, sue them. Simply turning them into Google won’t do anything. You can try to send them a cease and desist letter, but that really only carries weight if it is on legal stationary. Either the person doing this is really stupid, or it is intentional. The letter will determine that. If they are stupid, they will take it down immediately with an apology note, of it is intentional, they will ignore it. Judging by the site and it’s stated intention, I would say this is intentional and they are content theves.

In the mean time, you may also be able to go after their domain with GoDaddy and have it shut down.

February 28, 2011 at 6:52 pm #164609

Paul Corsetti
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I am not sure how you copyright a blog page? I do know that Google does indeed shut down sites if they are duplicates of content under different domains… I was warned of this many years ago…

February 28, 2011 at 7:58 pm #164608

Jason T. Radice
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All you really need is to place the warning at the bottom of the page stating that the content is copyrighted and then the years active. The site that ripped off your stuff has a copyright of 2009. Your writing is content (like a book) and should be copyrighted to protect your property. It may already be through your host, but you need to take the step and place notice on the page somwhere. You can even put a longer disclaimer…the ‘circle C’, then spell out Copyright 2008-2011 (or whenever you started the blog. You should have records of when your uploads occured, so backdating should not be an issue.

Look at the lower left of this page and see the “‘circle C’ 2011”

February 28, 2011 at 8:06 pm #164607

Paul Corsetti
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Yes, Blogger has all the dates in the editing area of it’s main page for my account. 2006-2011 for me….

I have also found this person’s blog to be linked to the site that is using my content: http://earthlandscapes.blogspot.com/

Not sure what his affiliation is towards the azlandscape site….but he has been notified directly by me to remove my content…

February 28, 2011 at 8:19 pm #164606

Paul Corsetti
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I never looked before… but blogger’s template design already has a small window where you can put in copyright notice or attribution notices…

Thanks for telling me about that Jason…

March 10, 2011 at 3:39 pm #164605

Paul Corsetti
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Success! That site is dead!

Writing to Google with complaints has shut the site links out of Google completely! I heard nothing from them but decided to check things out this morning and nothing shows up…also, Thomas, I did contact GoDaddy.com and it would seem that the website has been stricken from their register as well. Thanks for that advice…

So there you have it, if you put up your intellectual property on the net and what they call a “Splog” site decides to take your content… making a few squeaks to Google and the site’s Domain register company will get the offender annihilated! lol

The webmaster for that site never did reply to my email… too bad…
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