After seeing my last article appear in another blog verbatim with no attribution, I started looking for this guy's "name" and found it all over.
Try this search in google: "Marché Boursier" site:blogspot.com
Also interesting is that "Marché Boursier" in french means "stock market". Maybe this guy started out spamming stocks or something.
All of these sites seem well done, loaded with ads, and clearly have been in business for a while.
How do we stop this kind of crap? Google isn't making it easy since their DMCA procedure involves snail mail, and there are no contacts on any of the "blogs".
The sites I've found so far with this name as a poster are:
marcheboursier.blogspot.com
strikerdiary.blogspot.com
coolpicturesworld.blogspot.com
universearch.blogspot.com
technobusiness.blogspot.com
weirdoddities.blogspot.com
funkystories.blogspot.com
technowirenews.blogspot.com
I'm going to see if there is anything I can do to stop these from getting on reddit and digg at least.
Josh 06/28/2007 03:16
This seems to be becoming epidemic, but seeing it's mention on multiple blogs that I read. A friend of mine has been posting ActiveScript/Flash examples and one of them ended up verbatim on flashenabled.wordpress.com, which appears to just take a feed (or maybe even copy/paste as it's often not formatted), put "Blah said:" and proceed to put the entire article on their site with ads and the like around it. Technically that attribute it, but I would say the site absolutely acts as though it has original content.
K 06/28/2007 11:46
I think the snail mail option is a good compromise. If they had an online form it would be too easy to "push a button" and blindly accuse sites of breaking the law.
Using snail mail gives people time to pause and think things over.
cp 06/29/2007 16:03
Hi,
Just want to tell you one thing Josh, when i inserted a full article of other blog, i’ve credit the author of the post, as also linked to the original post. Moreover, i just start blogging a few time ago. One of the things you said, it was that i was doing that cause i wanna to have a better page rank. My pagerank is 7, so i don’t need better than that. Also, if you read the about page o my blog, i say that the blog it’s like a library to me. If i inserted the full post content of other blog, it’s because when i make a search on mine for something i need at that time, it will be easier to find the related issue. Not more than that,i got no other reason to do it. Of course, after i’ve received the e-mail from the blog’s author, i have promptly deleted the post as per his request, and i’ve sent to him an e-mail reply as also posted on his blog, After that the author decided to delete my comment. But it’s ok. I can tell you that after all this confusion i’ve realized that there are some rules that we must follow when posting content, even if it is free content, and i’ve been following it strictly.
Just one more thing Josh, when you wrote the flashenabled address, at least you could used the href, So i could noticed this article at the time you have commented. But it’s ok… i understand you.
Brgds, CP