Warning! A despicable low life named Ryan Nuessly, has been ignoring my copyright notices, stealing my blog posts from this blog and posting them on his domain. I’m sending hostgator a raft of DMCA complaints. I’m also warning every blogger I can about this creep’s nefarious way of making a living off stolen blog content.
Spread the word!
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izaakmak
January 17, 2010
That sucks! I hope I don’t sound naive, but why on Earth would a person do such a thing? I mean, how can he possibly benefit from it? If he’s getting paid for it, wouldn’t the ones paying know that it isn’t his work? I understand that you’re not exactly an unknown quantity.
dreamsburnred
January 17, 2010
People do it for traffic, which in a result they can put up ads and make a profit from someone elses work.
timethief
January 17, 2010
Yes, money is the motive. Some have PPC blogs (pay per click) and others have other methods of monetizing. Some scrape content and sell it to other unscrupulous web site managers with sites covered in advertising.
dreamsburnred
January 17, 2010
Blog is now rated red (worst) they will get a warning of the rating when they load the blog. :)
timethief
January 17, 2010
I received two email relies to my email. The content has been removed.
Mark Stoneman
January 17, 2010
Argh. Annoying, that is.
timethief
January 17, 2010
@Mark Stoneman
Yes, it is. It’s annoying to have to deal with people who lack respect and ethics.
BTW it’s so good to hear from you. I hope your are doing well. : )
VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
January 17, 2010
Nuke it asap! I loathe splogs!
timethief
January 17, 2010
NUKED!
VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
January 17, 2010
Great! :)
Jenn
January 17, 2010
I want to see him steal THIS post and stick it on his blog! Do you think he’s stupid enough to do it?
VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
January 17, 2010
Jenn, how do you know it’s ‘he’?!
Jenn
January 18, 2010
Well… the person’s name is “Ryan.” Usually that’s a man’s name.
VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
January 18, 2010
Hmm, ohkk. Thanks Jenn.
timethief
January 17, 2010
He took the content down but you can count on me keeping watch.
Jenn
January 18, 2010
I would too!
worddreams
January 18, 2010
You can count on many of us to never visit his splog. Thanks for the warning.
timethief
January 18, 2010
I chose to publish my post and use the social networks and media to promnote because this is what I saw on the whois:
VIKAS |vikas-gupta.in
January 18, 2010
And it is a unique name meaning the person is a history sheeter!
You will find many domains in my name too but my name is a very common one in India but Ryan Nuessly is a unique name and he is into this business big time.
timethief
January 19, 2010
Yes indeed and one can use many ways to watch others on the internet.
David
January 19, 2010
Hi Timethief,
What system do you use that helped you to spot that he was stealing content?
timethief
January 19, 2010
I watched the bots that were visiting my blog over and over again and I knew from my stats programs that they weren’t from search engines. So I ran my site through copyscape.
David
January 20, 2010
Thank you for the reply and the answer.
How do you recognize bots?
timethief
January 20, 2010
That’s hard to answer without being able to point to specifics and I can’t do there here. Sorry :(
Sandrina
January 19, 2010
Stealing other people’s work is a big problem on the Internet. This is just bad.
timethief
January 19, 2010
Yes it’s bad but those who are into it are making money from their nefarious ways. So do be aware that the RSS feeds you have are not only sending out your posts to ethical people.
Tony Hogan
January 20, 2010
thanks and peace
timethief
January 20, 2010
Hello there,
It’s great to hear from you even on this maudlin subject. :)
Love and Peace
TiTi
Tony Hogan
January 20, 2010
i’ve given up on people stealing my stuff… is a he at BC.?
timethief
January 20, 2010
@Tony
Hmmm I never go near that pit any more … let me check and see. No, not for that domain but he’s contact for 59 others too.
I hope you are well and happy too. I miss you. :)
Love and Peace
TiTi
AA
January 21, 2010
How do you find the host and what’s the easiest way to send the complaint?
timethief
January 21, 2010
I used plagiarism checkers, copyscape and copygator as well as searches of Google, Yahoo and Bing. Then I did whois searches and began to prepare DMCA complaints. See > http://onecoolsitebloggingtips.com/2008/08/01/splogspot-dealing-with-content-thieves/onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/splog-off-dealing-with-content-theft/
I’m currently watching other possible content thieves who are frequenting my blog many times every day and who never ever leave comments. The average every day blogger doesn’t use “unidentified” browsers on Linux so I always watch those “visitors”.
brightcalliope
January 21, 2010
Is this kind of theft common? I’m very new to the blogging world, but I would hope this was the exception rather than the rule. I’m glad you got the word out, and I hope it doesn’t happen to you again.
timethief
January 22, 2010
Yes, content theft is very common. No, it’s not an exception. This is not the first time my content has been stolen from this blog or from my other blogs. Sadly, it won’t be the last time either.
Since RSS feeds were introduced bloggers have come to know that it’s only a matter of time before most will discover their content has been stolen and placed on a splog. The motive of the thieves is to make money from the theft. One cannot make money from a (PPC) pay per click site and/or from ad clicks if no one visits the site and what draws visitors to a site is content.
This is why it’s important to search for your own content on the internet and look for duplication. Duplicate content can be located in many ways, and there are sites like copyscape that provide tools and the service of helping you determine if your content has been stole, where it is situate,and how to make a DMCA complaint.