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cap

(7,170 posts)
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 08:15 PM Apr 2012

Right wing blog is plagiarizing me wholesale. Any quick way to stop it?

My blog http://Journeythroughthecortex.blogspot.com is being plagiarized by a right wing site http://www.aafnh.org. They are taking my articles and stripping out copyright notice and reposting the whole article on their site. I've written to them to stop but they are ignoring me.

Is their a quick way to write a dmca letter to cover all the articles plagiarized? There are a lot. I think over 40. I don't know who hosts their site. They have annonymized it. I think it is godaddy.

Also is there any way to get my Posts ranked higher on search engines. Because I have not been promoting my blog very much, I am sinking to the second page after their posts even though I am the original author.

If anyone wants to link to me or help me tweak my pages, I would be very much appreciative.

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Right wing blog is plagiarizing me wholesale. Any quick way to stop it? (Original Post) cap Apr 2012 OP
Maybe Skinner would know. Send him a message. The Wielding Truth Apr 2012 #1
Speculation. Downwinder Apr 2012 #2
I have to find out who to send it to. cap Apr 2012 #3
maybe this will help you: steve2470 Apr 2012 #4
Some tightwing foreclosure/payday loan site embedded my occupy videos Generic Other Apr 2012 #5
Can't post to their blog cap Apr 2012 #9
You say you can't contact their web host? They would shut them down, I think. freshwest Apr 2012 #11
whois shows an anonymized site cap Apr 2012 #19
I've been noticing that a number of the right wing nut blogs, such as those that carry some pretty freshwest Apr 2012 #21
??? Followed your links, don't see a right wing blog when went to 'Home.' freshwest Apr 2012 #6
Keep reading cap Apr 2012 #8
Ah, okay. It looked pretty vanilla with a graphic about the brain. Strange mix. freshwest Apr 2012 #10
Get a lawyer .... Trajan Apr 2012 #7
I did a ping to the domain name ET Awful Apr 2012 #12
Thanks cap Apr 2012 #13
?? When I went to that site, I saw that all your articles were listed *as links to your site* tblue37 Apr 2012 #14
If they are stealing content with a bot or a script of some sort, geckosfeet Apr 2012 #15
I'm on blogger so I don't think it's possible cap Apr 2012 #17
No, I can see stuff they are taking muriel_volestrangler Apr 2012 #16
If they were doing fair use cap Apr 2012 #18
I don't think they crediting you - they've just stolen a post of yours that referred to others muriel_volestrangler Apr 2012 #26
Direct your complaint to their ISP. They're probably inviolation of their Terms of Service. slackmaster Apr 2012 #20
Is "fair use" a federal law? EFerrari Apr 2012 #22
The formal route would be to file a civil lawsuit in a US federal district court slackmaster Apr 2012 #24
Sure but that doesn't preclude cap from indicating to the ISP EFerrari Apr 2012 #25
Here's a link Darth_Kitten Apr 2012 #23
Thanks to one and all cap Apr 2012 #27

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)
2. Speculation.
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 08:34 PM
Apr 2012

Get a copy of Righthaven's paperwork. Edit it for your situation. File in small claims court.

cap

(7,170 posts)
3. I have to find out who to send it to.
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 09:22 PM
Apr 2012

I am not sure I want to file a loser's small claims court case! Righthaven didn't have a good track record.

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)
5. Some tightwing foreclosure/payday loan site embedded my occupy videos
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 09:27 PM
Apr 2012

I wrote and asked them to remove. They acted really snitty about it, but they did remove. What nerve.

Good luck dealing with the assholes. You might start posting public comments on their site to annoy them.

cap

(7,170 posts)
19. whois shows an anonymized site
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 10:53 AM
Apr 2012

I am not sure if cloudflare is the original host or not. But it is worth a try at sending a DMCA notice there.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
21. I've been noticing that a number of the right wing nut blogs, such as those that carry some pretty
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 11:52 AM
Apr 2012

Incendiary stuff, like Malkin, use this technique. There is no banner, they don't seem to be linked well. This is possibly to escape being quoted or sued, I don't know. I do understand the 'this website does not give out information' message that my browser makes.

I'm sure someone knows how to get to the right party on this. As I wrote on another post in your thread here, we have members who know a lot about this, do it for a living. And I do think your site might be changed to prevent them doing what they're doing. But once they've published it on their site, I don't know what to do since they are stonewalling you.

Good luck on protecting your work. I find your site very interesting and informative.

cap

(7,170 posts)
8. Keep reading
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 10:26 PM
Apr 2012

You will get to their screeds on "obamacare".

A lot of plagiarized content from neuroskeptic blog and FDA .

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
10. Ah, okay. It looked pretty vanilla with a graphic about the brain. Strange mix.
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 10:38 PM
Apr 2012

I've seen people fight this before, I hope it works. Often there is a message that everything must be complete with credits added. If they link back, then you will get the money for the link being clicked on.

It appears that more and more this problem has an engineered solution. One cannot copy and paste, if that is what is being done, it page simply won't allow it, and the page can only be shared with the link.

A number of photosharing sites that want to prevent people from taking copyrighted images, will only permit a click on the image to have the link back to the page.

We have computer groups and several members make a living working with websites. I think Amerigo Vespucci works on these things full time.

Good luck.

ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
12. I did a ping to the domain name
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 10:42 PM
Apr 2012

which returned an IP address of 199.27.135.82 which is owned by or routed through https://www.cloudflare.com/

Hope that helps.

I'm not sure if it will since they are apparently a relaying service.

At the very least, report the site to Cloudflare as this violates their terms of service:

You shall not post, transmit, retransmit, etc. . . .

6. upload, post, transmit, or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, or other proprietary rights of any party;

tblue37

(65,408 posts)
14. ?? When I went to that site, I saw that all your articles were listed *as links to your site*
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 11:35 PM
Apr 2012

and specifically credited to you. That isn't plagiarism--in fact, it's the opposite of plagiarism. If you don't want links to your site, I assume you can tell them to stop linking, but why would you want to do that?

Or is this linking and crediting a brand new development in response to your complaints to them?

geckosfeet

(9,644 posts)
15. If they are stealing content with a bot or a script of some sort,
Sat Apr 21, 2012, 11:48 PM
Apr 2012

you may be able to configure your server to prevent it from working. Talk to your hosting service. Explain that someone is scraping your site for content and that you want block them. You may be able to do it by blocking their IP address but you will probably have put up some kind of a firewall or change some server settings.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
16. No, I can see stuff they are taking
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 06:44 AM
Apr 2012

For instance, a post from cap's blog in 2010:

Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Prayer for Peace and Global OM
Graph from the Princeton Center of Noetic Studies that conducted a study of a global prayer for peace in an attempt to quantify and somehow prove that parapsychology is real. Just thought it was amusing.
http://journeythroughthecortex.blogspot.co.uk/2010/09/prayer-for-peace-and-global-om.html


And now on 'aafnh':
Prayer for Peace and Global OM
Posted on April 19, 2012 by Scott10

Graph from the Princeton Center of Noetic Studies that conducted a study of a global prayer for peace in an attempt to quantify and somehow prove that parapsychology is real. Just thought it was amusing.
http://www.aafnh.org/knowledge/prayer-for-peace-and-global-om.html


Or, 2009:
http://journeythroughthecortex.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/autism-drivers.html
March 25, 2012:
http://www.aafnh.org/knowledge/autism-drivers.html

Notice those two posts were claimed as by 'Scott0' and 'Young0'. They are actively trying to make it look like original material.

And cap's 'about me' turns up constantly on the other site:
My wild ride through my tangled neurons... A Journey through neuroscience, cognition, art, music and life. I found out that I had a learning disability in middle age and a plethora of vision, hearing, balance, and motor skill problems. This is the story of my therapies and my reflections on the developments in Neuroscience, cognition, art, music and life.
http://journeythroughthecortex.blogspot.co.uk/p/about-me.html


They steal from other people too:
http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.co.uk/2010/07/its-like-cocaine-but-no-fun.html
http://www.aafnh.org/news/its-like-cocaine-but-no-fun.html , credited to 'Martinez6', as is this:
http://www.aafnh.org/news/heal-the-pink-ribbon-campaigns-dirty-little-secret-dr-wm-campbell-douglass-ii-m-d.html
but that was taken from:
http://truehealthistruewealth.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/heal-pink-ribbon-campaign-dirty-little.html

I suspect the entire site is plagiarised.

And the links you saw? That was a post plagiarised from cap too:
http://journeythroughthecortex.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/coming-to-end-of-row-with-occupational.html

cap

(7,170 posts)
18. If they were doing fair use
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 08:27 AM
Apr 2012

I couldn't complain. If they were following the same policy as DU, I'd have to endure it. That is, if only 4 paragraphs were taken with a link.


The linking and crediting is new. I did complain to them by posting a couple comments about it. But they have ignored me and started moderating complaints so that nothing shows up.

Also, I don't think that they've gone back and corrected all the earlier posts. I have to check.

muriel_volestrangler

(101,321 posts)
26. I don't think they crediting you - they've just stolen a post of yours that referred to others
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 01:15 PM
Apr 2012

that you had written - see the end of my post #16 above. Not crediting you on purpose, at least.

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
22. Is "fair use" a federal law?
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 11:56 AM
Apr 2012

If so, couldn't cap send a letter to DoJ and cc the ISP? It would cost .70 and maybe get some attention.

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
25. Sure but that doesn't preclude cap from indicating to the ISP
Sun Apr 22, 2012, 12:44 PM
Apr 2012

that the Feds are getting complaints about them.

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