Yep, it's happened again. This time it's a celebrity site that's been on the net for 9 years now and they've taken my short piece about Dido's new album. They have taken the text but they left a link to my site so it's ironic that it's leading people to the blog. On the other hand, it would have been nice to have contacted me before hand before copying and pasting my text, as I probably would have said okay. I love these dodgy sites, there isn't anyway to contact them on any of the web pages! although by using Whois.net, I know the name, address and contact details of the domain owner. I won't post the direct link to the site this time as I don't want to indirectly give them any hits.
For Bloggers: Check my earlier post to check if your content is being splogged and what you can do about it.
For Sploggers: Please, please, please write your own content or ask me for permission before ripping off mine.
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I'm sorry to hear about your recent problems. If there is anything that I can do to help, please drop me a line, I'll be happy to assist. Usually it is easy to get these sites shut down with a simple letter to the host.
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Thanks for the kind words Jon. Sooner or later I have to decide on a policy on what to do about having my content stolen. I was thinking about putting a java script in that disables right clicking and page source views but I've realized that's easily defeated by simply turning scripts off. I'm going to do some more reading and choose a course of action soon. Your site looks like it will be very helpful!
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