Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:47 AM, M. Sean Kaminsky kaminsky...@gmail.com wrote: just came across this wordpress plug-in - not sure how effective it is - but thought it was interesting: WP-PreventCopyBlogs Here's the direct link to this plugin: http://www.techtipsmaster.com/wp-preventcopyblogs.html Kid of cool if you're worried about copying. Itd be weird if a popup happened anytime someone copied a link. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
just came across this wordpress plug-in - not sure how effective it is - but thought it was interesting: WP-PreventCopyBlogs This plugin can, 1.Track the visitors who try to copy your content. 2.Record the ip of the user who tries to do fraudulent copy with their landing url of your site and referral url.This can help you to do necessary measures if you notice something bad. 3.Enable Message displayed to your user upon users choice. 4.Disable Selection of you text and Right Click for users depending on the option. In version 2.0, Disabling of right click without alert option is allowed,depending on user's choice. - Check out my new book on Amazon: Naked Lens: Video Blogging Video Journaling to Reclaim the YOU in YouTubehttp://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0981318800?ie=UTF8tag=naklenboo-20linkCode=as2camp=1789creative=390957creativeASIN=0981318800 Contact Me [image: Facebook]http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?ref=profileid=555861803[image: Twitter] http://twitter.com/statuses/friends_timeline/82866166.rss On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: I'm still enquiring via ICANN folks what redress there is to bogus WHOIS info. oop, here you go! http://wdprs.internic.net/ -- -- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
He's back up with a StarWars blog this time: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Had a quick search but couldn't find what the original blog is, will try again tomorrow. Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
If it's there it certainly isn't indexed by Google. I note the one definite piece of info one can derive is that the gamersgate affiliate is wgv I'm still enquiring via ICANN folks what redress there is to bogus WHOIS info. j On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:03 AM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: He's back up with a StarWars blog this time: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Had a quick search but couldn't find what the original blog is, will try again tomorrow. Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
I'm still enquiring via ICANN folks what redress there is to bogus WHOIS info. oop, here you go! http://wdprs.internic.net/ -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Hi David, Is there any way to publicize this person, to out him, to report him to any sanctions organization? I guess I'm wondering if there is any way to control this kind of behavior. I was glad to see the quik response you get from the original host. That's encouraging. Tom Dolan On Feb 7, 2010, at 6:48 PM, David Jones wrote: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ He's back with a new host (ixwebhosting.com), but no site uploaded yet. Will be interesting to see if he copies me again, or some other video blog! Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:22 PM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: Are you telling us that you contacted the old host and they stopped him, and now he's setting up at anew host? Yes. As I mentioned in another post, I put in a DMCA takedown notice with his host and the site was shut down within 10 minutes. I'll do the same with this new host if it's my site he rips off again. Dave.
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Is there any way to publicize this person, to out him, to report him to any sanctions organization? I guess I'm wondering if there is any way to control this kind of behavior. Probably not. By all accounts his name and address is fake. I could try and find out his real name one way or another, but I just couldn't be bothered at this stage. Dave.
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
I hope you are taking screenshots. On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:24 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi David, Is there any way to publicize this person, to out him, to report him to any sanctions organization? I guess I'm wondering if there is any way to control this kind of behavior. Probably not. By all accounts his name and address is fake. I could try and find out his real name one way or another, but I just couldn't be bothered at this stage. Dave. Yahoo! Groups Links -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
http://www.warvideoblog.com/ He's back with a new host (ixwebhosting.com), but no site uploaded yet. Will be interesting to see if he copies me again, or some other video blog! Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Are you telling us that you contacted the old host and they stopped him, and now he's setting up at anew host? On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ He's back with a new host (ixwebhosting.com), but no site uploaded yet. Will be interesting to see if he copies me again, or some other video blog! Dave. -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
I am just checking and seeing that the contact listed in the WHOIS record is completely false. I'm a bit involved with ICANN through my work with the Internet Society - I'm going to check if there's anything can be done to suspend the domain, though I'm doubtful. j On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: Are you telling us that you contacted the old host and they stopped him, and now he's setting up at anew host? On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ He's back with a new host (ixwebhosting.com), but no site uploaded yet. Will be interesting to see if he copies me again, or some other video blog! Dave. -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com --- -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Thinking about it, the best thing you can do, if he comes back, is get his adsense account suspended: https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=9894 On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:34 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: I am just checking and seeing that the contact listed in the WHOIS record is completely false. I'm a bit involved with ICANN through my work with the Internet Society - I'm going to check if there's anything can be done to suspend the domain, though I'm doubtful. j On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 2:22 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: Are you telling us that you contacted the old host and they stopped him, and now he's setting up at anew host? On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:48 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ He's back with a new host (ixwebhosting.com), but no site uploaded yet. Will be interesting to see if he copies me again, or some other video blog! Dave. -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com --- -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com --- -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Certainly it's surprising to find your whole site copied - especially in that way - but I don't think it's a complete disaster when stuff like that happens. For myself, I'm mostly interested in making things and having people watch/use/whatever. Someone copying my content doesn't hamper those goals and it may even help a bit. Also, everything is branded in a way even if it's just with your face or url. And because it's copying not stealing, nothing is really lost - probably not even ad revenue. All of that said, what I'd mostly be worried about is Google - either having the copy show up in results instead of the real thing or having Google remove you from their index (not sure if they'd do that though). - Verdi
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On 4 February 2010 21:46, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! Good to hear that you resolved this. Interestingly, video blogs should be particulatly good at preventing things like this. Scraping and subsituting text is relatively easy, but dynamically altering the content of a video/audio stream is _much_ harder. Maybe what we should all learn from this is to include a bit more personal placement in the videos themselves. I'm not talking in your face here, but (for example) if you were to hand-write your eevblog url on a piece of card and stand it somewhere on an often-visible bench or shelf in your lab, it would be virtually impossible to remove from your videos, especially if you occasionally change the colour, shape, or handwriting. That, together with the occasional mention of your site while you are speaking to the camera should pretty much ensure that attempts to scrape your site will be pointless. Let's use the tools we have, and spare a moment of pity for poor text bloggers who have no such defences :( Frank. http://www.makevideo.org.uk/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Not that I am aware of, but then my stuff really is not the stuff that folk want to copy to be honest. Ernie http://www.ernmander.com http://twitter.com/ernmander On 04/02/2010 21:46, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! My site: http://www.eevblog.com The copy: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Clearly an attempt to cash in on ad revenue with established content. Anyone else experienced this? Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Never seen anything quite like it. I suppose they could have crawled your site, but it kind of looks like they might have had ta mysql dump. DMCA them! = Registrant: warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: WARVIDEOBLOG.COM Created on: 16-Jul-08 Expires on: 16-Jul-10 Last Updated on: 10-Apr-09 Administrative Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Technical Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Domain servers in listed order: NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! My site: http://www.eevblog.com The copy: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Clearly an attempt to cash in on ad revenue with established content. Anyone else experienced this? Dave. -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: Never seen anything quite like it. I suppose they could have crawled your site, but it kind of looks like they might have had ta mysql dump. Yeah, I didn't even know it was possible to do such a thing. They copied my BBS Forum and all the posts and everything! I'm amazed actually. DMCA them! How do I DMCA them? I was going to complain to Godaddy to have them removed, but can't even find a decent contact for doing that yet. Thanks Dave.
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I feel your pain... I believe such content thefts have been around since the birth of blogs/rss... it's classified as Splogs or spam blogs. Wired had a story about the trend back in 2006: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.09/splogs.html Here are some tips from http://www.fightsplog.com - David Sifry from Technorati talks about Spam and Fake Blogshttp://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html . - Mark Cuban's posting about Sploghttp://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000870054492/ and how IceRocket may stop indexing Blogger blogs because of the splog. - EWeek article on splogshttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1849438,00.asp - Fight Splog http://fightsplog.blogspot.com/ - a blog which outs splogs. Finally, Google provides clear instructions on how to report infringing material to DMCA: http://www.google.com/dmca.html Good luck and keep us posted! -- Kevin Lim Cyberculturalist http://theory.isthereason.com // @brainopera This email is: [ ] bloggable[X] ask first [ ] private On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:19 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.comjoly%40punkcast.com wrote: Never seen anything quite like it. I suppose they could have crawled your site, but it kind of looks like they might have had ta mysql dump. Yeah, I didn't even know it was possible to do such a thing. They copied my BBS Forum and all the posts and everything! I'm amazed actually. DMCA them! How do I DMCA them? I was going to complain to Godaddy to have them removed, but can't even find a decent contact for doing that yet. Thanks Dave. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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Um, http://davidmchenry.info/2009/12/01/how-to-file-a-dmca-notice/ advises: 1) take screenshots 2) send a cease and desist email and wait 72 hours 3) then send the formal DMCA notice Serve the site and GoDaddy both, I would. According to http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/g/godaddy.pdf that would be copyri...@godaddy.com If that doesn't work, it's worth getting a layer as you can likely hammer them for some damages. j DMCA them! How do I DMCA them? I was going to complain to Godaddy to have them removed, but can't even find a decent contact for doing that yet. Thanks Dave. -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
correction: copyrightcla...@godaddy.com On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Joly MacFie j...@punkcast.com wrote: Um, http://davidmchenry.info/2009/12/01/how-to-file-a-dmca-notice/ advises: 1) take screenshots 2) send a cease and desist email and wait 72 hours 3) then send the formal DMCA notice Serve the site and GoDaddy both, I would. According to http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/g/godaddy.pdf that would be copyri...@godaddy.com If that doesn't work, it's worth getting a layer as you can likely hammer them for some damages. j DMCA them! How do I DMCA them? I was going to complain to Godaddy to have them removed, but can't even find a decent contact for doing that yet. Thanks Dave. -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com --- -- --- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com ---
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
This is not uncommon. It's a splog essentially. Just haven't seen it done in awhile. You're on the right track with DMCA. Don't freak out though... they're not hurting you directly... not like your blog getting infected with a virus, or your domain name being held hostage. (More common and recent attacks that are much worse) You want to find out who they're hosting with... then google up on proper DMCA takedown notice etiquette and send a short, too the point, properly formated DMCA takedown notice to their ISP or host. For example. For awhile a lot of splogs were using google's blogger.com, wordpress or some used independant ISP, ie. dreamhost, but much less common. In this case you simply need to send whatever authority... i.e. google, dreamhost, wordpress... a properly formated DMCA take down notice stating exactly what's going on. Keep it short and simple. It is a very straight forward case of them copying all your content. Easy case. The hardest part will be trying to find the proper channels. I suggest using a conservative carpet bomb technique before you escallate. I.E. find the five best contacts at said host company. These might be support, sales, technical support... or the VP or CEO. Depends on the size of the company. Give it a few days and if the spog isn't shut down, dig a little more on who the host is and enlarge your carpet bomb. Remember. Even though this is an egregious example of someone stealing your content a few days or a few weeks will not hurt you. It's not like your own blog or site is completely down. Likely this won't even affect your relationship with present and future visitors in the short term. So put you threats on check and instead go with an important, immediate response required, you may be held liable if no action is take... approach. As opposed to a now, asap, i will sue you approach. These are slimeballs yes... but they're lame slimeballs at that. This splog approach is pretty lame and probably not very profitable or effective since it takes months and months to build SEO / pagerank to get traffic during which time they can be quickly and easily shut down and their assets / account / profits seized. -Mike On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! My site: http://www.eevblog.com The copy: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Clearly an attempt to cash in on ad revenue with established content. Anyone else experienced this? Dave. Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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I didn't know this kinda thing was even possible. Is there anything we as a group can do to assist Dave with this? Is this a common occurrence? Are there laws governing this illegal action and finally, How did Dave discover the theft? And, what does DMCA them mean? Tom Dolan On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: Never seen anything quite like it. I suppose they could have crawled your site, but it kind of looks like they might have had ta mysql dump. DMCA them! = Registrant: warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: WARVIDEOBLOG.COM Created on: 16-Jul-08 Expires on: 16-Jul-10 Last Updated on: 10-Apr-09 Administrative Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Technical Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Domain servers in listed order: NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! My site: http://www.eevblog.com The copy: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Clearly an attempt to cash in on ad revenue with established content. Anyone else experienced this? Dave. -- -- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
You can go to www.copyscape.com to enter your own URL to see if it has been scraped for content. Jim On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know this kinda thing was even possible. Is there anything we as a group can do to assist Dave with this? Is this a common occurrence? Are there laws governing this illegal action and finally, How did Dave discover the theft? And, what does DMCA them mean? Tom Dolan On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: Never seen anything quite like it. I suppose they could have crawled your site, but it kind of looks like they might have had ta mysql dump. DMCA them! = Registrant: warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: WARVIDEOBLOG.COM Created on: 16-Jul-08 Expires on: 16-Jul-10 Last Updated on: 10-Apr-09 Administrative Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com info%40warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Technical Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com info%40warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Domain servers in listed order: NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.comdavid.jones%40altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! My site: http://www.eevblog.com The copy: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Clearly an attempt to cash in on ad revenue with established content. Anyone else experienced this? Dave. -- -- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com tomjdolan%40gmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Jim Turner One By One Media, LLC www.onebyonemedia.com www.bloggersforhire.com @Genuine this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well. Take a look at my post here http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/ and see the striking similarities here http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/ . Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a bit violated. --Chad On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:07 PM, Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't know this kinda thing was even possible. Is there anything we as a group can do to assist Dave with this? Is this a common occurrence? Are there laws governing this illegal action and finally, How did Dave discover the theft? And, what does DMCA them mean? Tom Dolan On Feb 4, 2010, at 2:50 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: Never seen anything quite like it. I suppose they could have crawled your site, but it kind of looks like they might have had ta mysql dump. DMCA them! = Registrant: warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com) Domain Name: WARVIDEOBLOG.COM Created on: 16-Jul-08 Expires on: 16-Jul-10 Last Updated on: 10-Apr-09 Administrative Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com info%40warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Technical Contact: Bryant, Jerome K i...@warvideoblog.com info%40warvideoblog.com warvideoblog.com 547 Skinner Hollow Road Haines, California 97833 United States +1.5418563392 Fax -- +1.5418563392 Domain servers in listed order: NS33.DOMAINCONTROL.COM NS34.DOMAINCONTROL.COM On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 4:46 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.comdavid.jones%40altium.com wrote: I just discovered my blog site has been completely copied! My site: http://www.eevblog.com The copy: http://www.warvideoblog.com/ Clearly an attempt to cash in on ad revenue with established content. Anyone else experienced this? Dave. -- -- Joly MacFie 917 442 8665 Skype:punkcast WWWhatsup NYC - http://wwwhatsup.com http://pinstand.com - http://punkcast.com -- Tom Dolan tomjdo...@gmail.com tomjdolan%40gmail.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -- Chad F. Boeninger libraryvoice.com - blog libraryvoice.com/videos - videoblog twitter.com/cfboeninger [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chad Boeninger cfboenin...@gmail.com wrote: I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well. Take a look at my post here http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/ and see the striking similarities here http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/ . Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a bit violated. Dave's example is really extreme form of a splog. Its actually nicely designed as well. Looks real and not just a scrape trying to pull links. When this group first started when online video was very new, there were a lot of sites popping up scraping and aggregating video. Often they'd just grab RSS feeds and suddenly have instant content. We came up with a list of best practices that helped set the tone for what was acceptable: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites Dave, keep us up to date with what happens. As others have suggested, take a deep breath and take it step by step. If this guy gets some formal letters from an attorney...you may be surprised how quickly it goes away. Im surprised he has the domain in his own name. Jay -- http://ryanishungry.com http://momentshowing.net http://twitter.com/jaydedman 917 371 6790
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Thanks for the help everyone, I'll keep you all posted on what happens. It looks like it's even worse than imagined. It's not just a copy but the site is doing a live real-time mirror of my site and automatically replacing all references to eevblog with war video blog, even in the forum posts!: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=195.msg1871#msg1871 Unbelievable! BTW, I found out about by a clued up online advertiser who smelled a rat. Apparently the guy tried to sign up the site with this online advertising company, and it just didn't sound right when they reviewed it before accepting his application. So they did a basic search and saw it was a copy and contacted me to find out what was happening. Dave. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chad Boeninger cfboenin...@gmail.com wrote: I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well. Take a look at my post here http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/ and see the striking similarities here http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/ . Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a bit violated. Dave's example is really extreme form of a splog. Its actually nicely designed as well. Looks real and not just a scrape trying to pull links. When this group first started when online video was very new, there were a lot of sites popping up scraping and aggregating video. Often they'd just grab RSS feeds and suddenly have instant content. We came up with a list of best practices that helped set the tone for what was acceptable: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites Dave, keep us up to date with what happens. As others have suggested, take a deep breath and take it step by step. If this guy gets some formal letters from an attorney...you may be surprised how quickly it goes away. Im surprised he has the domain in his own name. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Well, it didn't take long: This Account Has Been Suspended 10 minutes after me sending the DMCA takedown notice to the web host! That fight was just too easy, no fun at all! Dave. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: Thanks for the help everyone, I'll keep you all posted on what happens. It looks like it's even worse than imagined. It's not just a copy but the site is doing a live real-time mirror of my site and automatically replacing all references to eevblog with war video blog, even in the forum posts!: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=195.msg1871#msg1871 Unbelievable! BTW, I found out about by a clued up online advertiser who smelled a rat. Apparently the guy tried to sign up the site with this online advertising company, and it just didn't sound right when they reviewed it before accepting his application. So they did a basic search and saw it was a copy and contacted me to find out what was happening. Dave. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chad Boeninger cfboenin...@gmail.com wrote: I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well. Take a look at my post here http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/ and see the striking similarities here http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/ . Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a bit violated. Dave's example is really extreme form of a splog. Its actually nicely designed as well. Looks real and not just a scrape trying to pull links. When this group first started when online video was very new, there were a lot of sites popping up scraping and aggregating video. Often they'd just grab RSS feeds and suddenly have instant content. We came up with a list of best practices that helped set the tone for what was acceptable: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites Dave, keep us up to date with what happens. As others have suggested, take a deep breath and take it step by step. If this guy gets some formal letters from an attorney...you may be surprised how quickly it goes away. Im surprised he has the domain in his own name. Jay
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Jim Turner jtur...@onebyonemedia.com wrote: You can go to www.copyscape.com to enter your own URL to see if it has been scraped for content. Hmmm, how interesting. I discovered that a site I have about Angora Rabbits has been copied.
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
David, I think another lesson to learn here is also that you can get anyone to get your site taken down just by the accusation of impropriety. If you think about the other side of that coin, you can see someone abuse that power as well. I am not suggesting that you are in any way rushing to judgment on this but i think that is why most people ask that the site be taken down by asking the owner and then resorting to a DMCA. Not that the nuclear option is not effective and obviously fast! Jim Turner On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:30 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: Well, it didn't take long: This Account Has Been Suspended 10 minutes after me sending the DMCA takedown notice to the web host! That fight was just too easy, no fun at all! Dave. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.comdavid.jones%40altium.com wrote: Thanks for the help everyone, I'll keep you all posted on what happens. It looks like it's even worse than imagined. It's not just a copy but the site is doing a live real-time mirror of my site and automatically replacing all references to eevblog with war video blog, even in the forum posts!: http://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?topic=195.msg1871#msg1871 Unbelievable! BTW, I found out about by a clued up online advertiser who smelled a rat. Apparently the guy tried to sign up the site with this online advertising company, and it just didn't sound right when they reviewed it before accepting his application. So they did a basic search and saw it was a copy and contacted me to find out what was happening. Dave. On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Jay dedman jay.ded...@gmail.comjay.dedman%40gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Chad Boeninger cfboenin...@gmail.comcfboeninger%40gmail.com wrote: I recently discovered that it's been happening to me as well. Take a look at my post here http://www.library.ohiou.edu/subjects/businessblog/2010/01/27/a-day-in-the-life-of-librarian/ and see the striking similarities here http://www.dreambusinesscoach.com/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-librarian/ . Granted, the site does link back to the original post, but I still feel a bit violated. Dave's example is really extreme form of a splog. Its actually nicely designed as well. Looks real and not just a scrape trying to pull links. When this group first started when online video was very new, there were a lot of sites popping up scraping and aggregating video. Often they'd just grab RSS feeds and suddenly have instant content. We came up with a list of best practices that helped set the tone for what was acceptable: http://videoblogginggroup.pbworks.com/Best+Practices+for+Aggregation+Sites Dave, keep us up to date with what happens. As others have suggested, take a deep breath and take it step by step. If this guy gets some formal letters from an attorney...you may be surprised how quickly it goes away. Im surprised he has the domain in his own name. Jay -- Jim Turner One By One Media, LLC www.onebyonemedia.com www.bloggersforhire.com @Genuine this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jim Turner jtur...@onebyonemedia.com wrote: David, I think another lesson to learn here is also that you can get anyone to get your site taken down just by the accusation of impropriety. If you think about the other side of that coin, you can see someone abuse that power as well. I am not suggesting that you are in any way rushing to judgment on this but i think that is why most people ask that the site be taken down by asking the owner and then resorting to a DMCA. Not that the nuclear option is not effective and obviously fast! Jim Turner I did email the owner first, giving them the benefit of the doubt that they may have just copied my site as a temporary template or something. But once I realised it was clear deception and they were real-time leeching and modifying my site for profit, that was it, take-down notice it was. I also wanted to stop them from simply pointing their script at someone else's video blog instead of mine, and the only way to do that is to have their account suspended. I don't think it's that easy to get another site taken down just by accusation. You do have to prove to some human at least at the web host that they have copied your content. They (I'm hoping) wouldn't just shut down your site based on an accusation without at least a cursary comparison between the sites/content in question to make sure the claim has at least some basis. BTW, this is the actual host in question: http://www.pronethosting.net/company/legal/terms-of-service/#cv They sound quite through and not the trigger happy type. But I suspect most hosts would err on the side of caution and suspend the site if there is at least some reasonable evidence of violation. If there is no evidence however, I'm sure they'd just ignore the request, or in the case of this host, refer them to the authorities. Dave.
Re: [videoblogging] Blatant copying of my Blog!
Great job David, and again I didn't want suggest anything derogatory. I remember Google giving some numbers last year at about this time that indicated that competitors would send DMCA notices to hosts to take out competitors and it just reminded me of that study. Again, I actually did a splog hunter post myself and have been scraped a number of times. I just didn't want to instruct others on how to abuse a little power. Thanks for staring this thread! Jim On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:13 PM, David Jones david.jo...@altium.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Jim Turner jtur...@onebyonemedia.comjturner%40onebyonemedia.com wrote: David, I think another lesson to learn here is also that you can get anyone to get your site taken down just by the accusation of impropriety. If you think about the other side of that coin, you can see someone abuse that power as well. I am not suggesting that you are in any way rushing to judgment on this but i think that is why most people ask that the site be taken down by asking the owner and then resorting to a DMCA. Not that the nuclear option is not effective and obviously fast! Jim Turner I did email the owner first, giving them the benefit of the doubt that they may have just copied my site as a temporary template or something. But once I realised it was clear deception and they were real-time leeching and modifying my site for profit, that was it, take-down notice it was. I also wanted to stop them from simply pointing their script at someone else's video blog instead of mine, and the only way to do that is to have their account suspended. I don't think it's that easy to get another site taken down just by accusation. You do have to prove to some human at least at the web host that they have copied your content. They (I'm hoping) wouldn't just shut down your site based on an accusation without at least a cursary comparison between the sites/content in question to make sure the claim has at least some basis. BTW, this is the actual host in question: http://www.pronethosting.net/company/legal/terms-of-service/#cv They sound quite through and not the trigger happy type. But I suspect most hosts would err on the side of caution and suspend the site if there is at least some reasonable evidence of violation. If there is no evidence however, I'm sure they'd just ignore the request, or in the case of this host, refer them to the authorities. Dave. -- Jim Turner One By One Media, LLC www.onebyonemedia.com www.bloggersforhire.com @Genuine this email is: [ ] bloggable [x] ask first [ ] private [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: videoblogging-dig...@yahoogroups.com videoblogging-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: videoblogging-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
