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March 14, 2008 By Michele 3 Comments

So.  Someone is stealing my content.  However they are linking to me.  They are scraping my content, but then listing the link to the entry.  So, I think, technically it’s not illegal, since they are listing my link.  Problem?  There’s my entry, with a bunch of google ads that I’M certainly not getting the money for.  See – they’re not commenting on the entry.  Just Hoox, or some other names wrote this…  Then my entry…  Then my link.  I don’t really know how to make them stop (since they’re linking me!ARG!)

They’re making money off of my content, without providing content of their own.  But the link makes it legal, as far as I can see.

Not only that – but I don’t want my own readers to think I am the one doing it to get more links out there or hits out there.

So – I’m doing some research.  I apologize if you read this in a feeder – I may be going to partials instead of full.  I also will probably be doing a copyright notice in the  feeds themselves.  And in each entry.

I don’t want to lose readers ’cause I go to partials…  But I may have to in order to protect my own content.  Mine.  mineminemineminemine.

Filed Under: innernets, ranting Tagged With: content stealing, copyright infringement

Comments

  1. absolutelybananas says

    March 14, 2008 at 1:31 pm

    that’s totally annoying AND from what I’ve read, illegal.
    As for partial feeds, I know they’re tempting, but I also know they hurt your readership… I personally only subscribe to feeds that have a full feed.

    Good luck!

  2. steph says

    March 14, 2008 at 6:03 pm

    How did you find this out? That somebody was doing this to you? That’s terrible! >:(

  3. Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah says

    March 16, 2008 at 7:26 am

    The same thing is happening to me and I have no idea how to stop them.

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