Comments on: Are They Content Thieves?

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Tue, 30 May 2006 11:59:34 +0000

And a good looking site as well. Looks like it could be one of Andreas’ designs.

As far as the content theft goes, I think it maybe difficult to stop. Myself, I am not too worried as long as there is a link back. It is just too easy to do!

By: Peter Westwood

Peter Westwood — Tue, 30 May 2006 08:43:47 +0000

Mac: wpstation.com is not one of his sites this is run by miklb who spends his time searching through the feeds he reads for interesting WordPress news and writes about it.

By: Mac

Mac — Sat, 27 May 2006 20:27:07 +0000

If I remember right, there are 3 sites this particular person or persons use;
Planet Wordpres - planetwordpres . com (don’t want to leave a link)
WordPress Station - wpstation . com

Both link to my blog (blogrolls do not have my blog listed)
Planet WordPress looks like it is down for maintenance.

The orignal author’s link and blog is under the title of the post. From what I’ve seen, there is very little original content on the site - just a lot of teasers from the original article, if not teasers the article isn’t much.

I installed a copyrite plugin on the site so it displays it at the bottom of each article.
I’ve had the same thoughts like you on these 2 sites, but haven’t removed them from access yet. Even if access is removed, the content of the article is still there.
For now, I’ll take the link (for technorati reasons) and keep an eye on the content and trackbacks to my articles.

By: Peter Westwood » Stealing content for profit.

Peter Westwood » Stealing content for profit. — Fri, 26 May 2006 16:54:22 +0000

[...] The new planetwordpress.com site seems to have the sole purpose of generating money from adsense clicks based on other content which I’m sure goes against the licence I have my content under (CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.0) and as such I have contacted Google to complain about the sites participation in the adsense program. Searching Google for mentions of planetwordpress.com it seems like I am not the only person to notice there content being stolen. Comment on this post [...]

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:51:08 +0000

Nope, sorry for the junk comments… see the formatting here

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 25 May 2006 13:48:52 +0000

Well, if you want to prevent them you could put a few extra lines in your .htaccess:

order allow,deny
deny from 70.87.46.164
allow from all

It would keep them from getting to your web site from their server and so it wouldn’t be able to update.

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Mon, 22 May 2006 14:05:54 +0000

I don’t think we can prevent it.

Maybe personal posts should remain personal. Publish them with password protection and only give the password to those who you want to see the posts!

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 22 May 2006 10:19:50 +0000

I have had this happen with several posts, and as you say, it is impossible to contact these people. I had it happen with a really personal post too. Not good at all. How can we prevent it?

By: Frank

Frank — Fri, 12 May 2006 21:08:31 +0000

Write to http://www.whoisguard.com and tell them what’s going on. They should be able to sort it out for you.

The owner of the site is currently hiding behind WhoIsGuard, under the email address of 24badf81e1454fbaa93d63a6860bf0c8.protect@whoisguard.com so if you talk to WhoIsGuard, they’ll probably close them down. Especially if you mention “lawsuit”.

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Fri, 12 May 2006 20:10:39 +0000

I have nothing against aggregators and there are some fine examples out there that are useful and I would agree that they can be a good source of visits.

However this particular website did not link to its sources when I wrote the post. They have since started to link but not by post title and credit link as I would prefer.