BuyItOrDie? Yeah, right…
I’ve noticed that one of my posts has been stolen (search for my site on Technorati) by a website called BuyItOrDie… I’m not going to link to them because I don’t want to help their google rankings. Regardless, they’ve stolen some of my content and a quick look round the blogosphere confirmed that I’m not the only one who’s having their content stolen.
This doesn’t appear to be an isolated incident and I suspect it will provide a challenge for the quality of results provided by search engines indexing blogs.
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Dude,
Thanks for linking to me and if there’s any way I can help you out shutting this thief down, let me know. I don’t know a lot about blogging, having been at it only for the past six months, but having had stuff copied and ads thrown around it has sure woken me up. I think the only danger now is that I let my writing go to pieces and concentrate on fighting them! I’d much rather be doing what I’ve been doing already – having fun just writing.
Sorry to hear this.
Here is one of many cases where a similar thing happened and there are mentioned possible actions against this, e.g. plagiarism-detection services.
I guess the only way to stop this really, is not to blog and this is everybodys own decision.
How about implementing some “bugs” into your texts ? If people copy the text without thinking, this would later be funny to also point this out. But then again, bad publicity is also publicity
or how many of the bugs (logical problems,…) they are able to find.
Another viewpoint: helps also to check, if your readers really read the text
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