Comments on: Contentjacking: The New Cyber Crime http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/ Everything about writing and marketing white papers Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:25:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Mike OBoyle http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-60946 Mike OBoyle Sat, 06 Dec 2008 17:59:12 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-60946 I'm glad I found this post. I'm changing my whole approach to my site. I started an advocacy site for clean energy have been re-posting articles. I always sourced the material to the original author and thought that was fine. I'll be excerpting all posts from now on with continued links to the original content. thanks I’m glad I found this post. I’m changing my whole approach to my site. I started an advocacy site for clean energy have been re-posting articles. I always sourced the material to the original author and thought that was fine. I’ll be excerpting all posts from now on with continued links to the original content.

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]]> By: Graham Strong http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58271 Graham Strong Wed, 09 Jan 2008 16:46:48 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58271 I've used CopyScape for years, and found people who have stolen web content from my site and that of my clients. Most don't even change it, just cut and paste it as their own. Every time I challenge them on it, they take it down. On the bright side, plagarism is the sincerest form of flattery! The other trick I use is to take key sentences and Google them. Make sure you use quotation marks so that you look for exact matches. You'll be surprised where your content turns up! I had one experience where I found my words on a competing website -- except that they weren't my words. Someone had actually taken my words and rewritten them enough so that they matched my same flow and nuances, though you couldn't nail them for plagarism. Now it is one thing when a non-writer takes your words because he/she can't write, but this was obviously the work of a skilled writer. Very dismaying indeed! ~Graham I’ve used CopyScape for years, and found people who have stolen web content from my site and that of my clients. Most don’t even change it, just cut and paste it as their own. Every time I challenge them on it, they take it down. On the bright side, plagarism is the sincerest form of flattery!

The other trick I use is to take key sentences and Google them. Make sure you use quotation marks so that you look for exact matches. You’ll be surprised where your content turns up!

I had one experience where I found my words on a competing website — except that they weren’t my words. Someone had actually taken my words and rewritten them enough so that they matched my same flow and nuances, though you couldn’t nail them for plagarism. Now it is one thing when a non-writer takes your words because he/she can’t write, but this was obviously the work of a skilled writer. Very dismaying indeed!

~Graham

]]> By: MollySiesta http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58177 MollySiesta Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:27:10 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58177 My query is, is your blog a means of income or a hobby? I publish my entertaining YouTube Videos on the Internet and then I find out in my Google news alert for my music duo Molly and Sonny Boy that there are video websites all over the world publishing my music videos and such, but I do not see a penny. I see free advertising! Peace, Molly of Molly and Sonny Boy My query is, is your blog a means of income or a hobby?
I publish my entertaining YouTube Videos on the Internet and then I find out in my Google news alert for my music duo Molly and Sonny Boy that there are video websites all over the world publishing my music videos and such, but I do not see a penny. I see free advertising!
Peace,
Molly of Molly and Sonny Boy

]]> By: Bruce http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58174 Bruce Tue, 01 Jan 2008 20:58:33 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58174 I recently listened to a podcast of a teleseminar by the Blog Squad. They interviewed a lawyer about intellectual property rights. If you copywrite your blog etc via registration ($45 every 90 days) and it is violated you can ask the perpetrator and the isp to take it down of=ver these violations. If you have registered and go to court you can sue for damages and legal fees which are frequently rewarded. I suggest you obtain and listen to this as a starting point and that you use this club on those who steal your content for financial renumeration. There are specifics you have to comply with but it is worth it since you and your estate own those words for 70 years after your death. If you want to protect your intellectual property, use the law. I recently listened to a podcast of a teleseminar by the Blog Squad. They interviewed a lawyer about intellectual property rights. If you copywrite your blog etc via registration ($45 every 90 days) and it is violated you can ask the perpetrator and the isp to take it down of=ver these violations. If you have registered and go to court you can sue for damages and legal fees which are frequently rewarded. I suggest you obtain and listen to this as a starting point and that you use this club on those who steal your content for financial renumeration. There are specifics you have to comply with but it is worth it since you and your estate own those words for 70 years after your death. If you want to protect your intellectual property, use the law.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58149 Jeff Fri, 28 Dec 2007 23:21:42 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-58149 Yes, I see now. Thanks for the blog and comments! I'm cleared up on this issue. I would never take someone else's content to begin with (it's more entertaining to write my own), but I wasn't very clear on why it would be a problem if it was fully sourced and linked to. Everyone is entitled to copyright protection immediately upon publication even if it is self-blog-publication. This highly invasive, rude, and illegal contentjacking should have a good solution -- somewhere. Public humiliation usually works, but doesn't stop them from starting up new blogs and doing the same to other people who aren't checking to see if their content is stolen. I don't know. Yes, I see now. Thanks for the blog and comments! I’m cleared up on this issue. I would never take someone else’s content to begin with (it’s more entertaining to write my own), but I wasn’t very clear on why it would be a problem if it was fully sourced and linked to. Everyone is entitled to copyright protection immediately upon publication even if it is self-blog-publication. This highly invasive, rude, and illegal contentjacking should have a good solution — somewhere. Public humiliation usually works, but doesn’t stop them from starting up new blogs and doing the same to other people who aren’t checking to see if their content is stolen. I don’t know.

]]> By: Dianna Huff http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19236 Dianna Huff Wed, 09 May 2007 19:41:43 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19236 Excellent! Excellent!

]]> By: Michael Stelzner http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19232 Michael Stelzner Wed, 09 May 2007 18:18:50 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19232 Ok folks; You will be happy to know that I was able to twist this guy into compliance. Here's what I wrote him: <blockquote>"Obi-Akpere; While I appreciate your adding my bio and a link to my blog, you are still in violation of my copyrights. If you do not abstract the article (meaning only show the first few paragraphs) OR remove it, I will will be reporting you to Blogger.com as in violation to my copyrights. If I do that, you may lose your blog all together. See http://www.blogger.com/content.g I will give you until 2pm Pacific on Wed. to comply. Mike </blockquote> It worked! Ok folks;

You will be happy to know that I was able to twist this guy into compliance.

Here’s what I wrote him:

“Obi-Akpere;

While I appreciate your adding my bio and a link to my blog, you are still in violation of my copyrights.

If you do not abstract the article (meaning only show the first few paragraphs) OR remove it, I will will be reporting you to Blogger.com as in violation to my copyrights.

If I do that, you may lose your blog all together.

See http://www.blogger.com/content.g

I will give you until 2pm Pacific on Wed. to comply.

Mike

It worked!

]]> By: Dianna Huff http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19228 Dianna Huff Wed, 09 May 2007 17:16:47 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19228 No, I think you should blog about him so that we can all see what a horrible thing he is doing. You have a highly traffic'd blog -- use the power of the dark side, bwhahahahahaha. At least now you have a link to your site. What kills me is when they use your copy word for word with no attribution. No, I think you should blog about him so that we can all see what a horrible thing he is doing. You have a highly traffic’d blog — use the power of the dark side, bwhahahahahaha.

At least now you have a link to your site. What kills me is when they use your copy word for word with no attribution.

]]> By: Michael Stelzner http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19224 Michael Stelzner Wed, 09 May 2007 16:57:19 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19224 Ok; So I find this guy who has "stolen" my content and placed it on his blog (thanks to Dianne and Copyscape). So I post a comment asking him to take it down.' Instead he adds my bio to the end of the post with a link back to my site. See http://klikmoney.blogspot.com/2007/05/dark-side-of-blogging-warnings-from.html I still find this unacceptable because he has posted my materials on his site without my permission. Should I report him to blogger.com (his hosting company)? Mike Ok;

So I find this guy who has “stolen” my content and placed it on his blog (thanks to Dianne and Copyscape).

So I post a comment asking him to take it down.’

Instead he adds my bio to the end of the post with a link back to my site.

See http://klikmoney.blogspot.com/2007/05/dark-side-of-blogging-warnings-from.html

I still find this unacceptable because he has posted my materials on his site without my permission.

Should I report him to blogger.com (his hosting company)?

Mike

]]> By: Michael Stelzner http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19220 Michael Stelzner Wed, 09 May 2007 16:46:36 +0000 http://www.writingwhitepapers.com/blog/2007/05/03/contentjacking-the-new-cyber-crime/#comment-19220 Green; I think people have no moral compass when it comes to stealing content. This is a BIG problem. Mike Green;

I think people have no moral compass when it comes to stealing content.

This is a BIG problem.

Mike

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