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 Blogs<http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000335.html> . - Mark Cuban's posting about Splog<http://www.blogmaverick.com/entry/1234000870054492/> and how IceRocket may stop indexing Blogger blogs because of the splog. - EWeek article on splogs<http://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 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Joly MacFie > <[email protected]<joly%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]
