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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Copyright: Fair Use Limitations
Splog Off! Dealing with content theft
SplogSpot: Dealing with content thieves
Spotting a splog
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.
People do it for traffic, which in a result they can put up ads and make a profit from someone elses work.
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.
Blog is now rated red (worst) they will get a warning of the rating when they load the blog. :)
I received two email relies to my email. The content has been removed.
Argh. Annoying, that is.
@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. : )
Nuke it asap! I loathe splogs!
NUKED!
Great! :)
I want to see him steal THIS post and stick it on his blog! Do you think he’s stupid enough to do it?
Jenn, how do you know it’s ‘he’?!
Well… the person’s name is “Ryan.” Usually that’s a man’s name.
Hmm, ohkk. Thanks Jenn.
He took the content down but you can count on me keeping watch.
I would too!
You can count on many of us to never visit his splog. Thanks for the warning.
I chose to publish my post and use the social networks and media to promnote because this is what I saw on the whois:
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.
Yes indeed and one can use many ways to watch others on the internet.
Hi Timethief,
What system do you use that helped you to spot that he was stealing content?
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.
Thank you for the reply and the answer.
How do you recognize bots?
That’s hard to answer without being able to point to specifics and I can’t do there here. Sorry :(
Stealing other people’s work is a big problem on the Internet. This is just bad.
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.
thanks and peace
Hello there,
It’s great to hear from you even on this maudlin subject. :)
Love and Peace
TiTi
i’ve given up on people stealing my stuff… is a he at BC.?
@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
How do you find the host and what’s the easiest way to send the complaint?
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”.
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.
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.