Blog Plagiarism - Dosh Dosh gets ripped off.

Today I discovered that I’ve been plagiarized by a blogger who has simply copied and pasted a lot of Dosh Dosh’s blog posts onto several of his blogs. No credit whatsoever was given or permission requested and my posts made up the bulk of his blog’s content. Like most content thieves, he’s monetized his blogs with Google Adsense in a bid to earn some money off my original posts.

This is really the first time I’ve had to deal with a blogger stealing stuff from my blog, so the process is particularly unpleasant and frankly, pisses me off. I’m gonna give out the URLs for his blog because I believe a lot of his other posts were stolen from other blogs. If you own a money-making blog or blog about blogging, check his websites to see if any content was stolen from your blog.

Update: The blogger in question has removed my posts from his blogs. I’m leaving the URLs up for your verification purposes.

http://1rich.blogspot.com/index.html
Every post on this blog is taken from Dosh Dosh.

http://seojunkie.blogspot.com
Two posts were taken from my blog. Lots of Articles on RSS with no credit whatsoever.

http://acidace.blogspot.com/
At least four posts from my blog. Lots of other posts on blogging that were presumably stolen.

http://about-scams.blogspot.com
A LOT of posts were stolen .. some as recent as a week ago.

The Perpetrator.

MyLot profile –> http://www.mylot.com/klajdi2
MyBloglog profile –> http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/members/klajdi2/

I left several messages on his blog but he refused to reply so I guess I’ll have to report this violation to Google Adsense in an effort to cut off his source of revenue. Will also be informing Blogspot so they’ll hopefully delete his blogs because of the copyrighted content.The blogger removed the posts on his blog, just a minute or two before I actually sent emails to Adsense/Blogspot. Lucky boy.

Anyone out there currently copying content from Dosh Dosh or any of my other websites, do note the following:

I will track you down even if it means spending money in the process.

I will only give you one warning. If It is unheeded, I will proceed to the following steps.

I will get your websites removed by your web hosts

I will report all copyright violations and will make sure you get banned permanently from all ad networks you use.

I will report your websites to the search engines and request that they deindex and blacklist your websites.

I will get as many details as possible on your web profile and publish it on all of the blogs, websites and forums I run.

I will let every social network or forum you are a member of, know that you are a content thief.

I will email everyone who links to you and inform that you are stealing content from my websites.

If you are in the U.S, I will hit you with a DMCA notice.

If you are anywhere else, you’ll get a cease and desist letter from my copyright lawyer.

I’m particularly vicious with plagiarists because this issue is something I cannot tolerate. Trust me, you really don’t want to steal from me. Word of advice: Delete any existing content now before I find it and start taking action.

When in doubt, always do the courteous thing and credit a website or blog you are taking the content from. And if you are really in need of quality content, either A) write it yourself, B) Hire a blogger or C) get it off free article directories.

If any of you out there wanna check if anyone has stolen your stuff, try Copyscape. If you don’t mind paying money, go with Copysentry, a web-based program that automatically searches the web weekly or daily for duplicates of your work. I’m gonna use Copysentry to find all the other websites that are also ripping off Dosh Dosh. Very irritating.

Has this happened to any of you out there? How did you deal with the problem of stolen content?