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Copycats, Sploggers or Theives - Stealing Blog Contents is Bad!

By Rome Uy • Dec 30th, 2007 • Category: Misc

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trust me, it’s bad :twisted:

to steal

  • to take the property of another wrongfully and especially as a habitual or regular practice
  • to come or go secretly, unobtrusively, gradually, or unexpectedly
  • to take or appropriate without right or leave and with intent to keep or make use of wrongfully
  • to take away by force or unjust means
  • to take surreptitiously or without permission
  • to appropriate to oneself or beyond one’s proper share : make oneself the focus of
  • to move, convey, or introduce secretly
  • to accomplish in a concealed or unobserved manner

theft

  • the act of stealing; specifically
  • the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it
  • an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property

credits to http://www.m-w.com/dictionary for the definitions

Here are other known synonyms to the above mentioned words.

  • theft
  • robbery
  • burglary
  • larceny
  • thieving
  • pilfering
  • shoplifting
  • pocketing
  • embezzlement
  • appropriation
  • pinching
  • nicking
  • reproduction
  • duplicate
  • replica
  • facsimile
  • print
  • carbon
  • copy
  • photocopy
  • fake
  • counterfeit
  • imitation
  • model
  • rip-off

Are you wondering what this post is all about? :D

Okay, I’d like to take time this time off of everything and write something that will ask for your help.

Recently, we have had lots of people copying our posts (lighter term for stealing :) ). We just didn’t mind them back then but we think it’s about time to take some action. We are not talking about doing something really :twisted: . Basically, we just want to let their owners know that we know about what they are doing and share some blogosphere lovin’.

If you have some spare time please help us out and drop by this stolen blog post (that is a nofollow link by the way so as not to give out some link loving from this site. We are just :evil: aren’t we). Its not the only but I lost the link to the others :D So again, if you have some spare time maybe you could drop by that blog and post a comment on it or something. You could see mine and Jack’s already there. Maybe peoples comments would knock some sense into this guy and make him realize that stealing content is wrong.

Thanks Guys! :smile:

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About the post author:

Rome Uy is grooming to be dubbed as Jack's Loyal Sidekick. haha He is a Filipino Graduating Nursing Student and is an active contributor on this site.

25 Comments »

Comment by Zhu
2007-12-30 12:50:36

I’m having problems too with a few blogs… I started a thread on a forum to figure it out, you can read it here if you’re interested:

Weird TrackBack: http://www.bloggeries.com/forum/blog-marketing/3140-weird-trackbacks-hey-my-post.html

 
Comment by Zhu
2007-12-30 12:51:09

Oh… and I posted a comment on the splog!

Comment by Rome
2007-12-30 14:51:29

thanks Zhu :)

 
 
Comment by sensibleguy
2007-12-30 13:30:13

I am also having that problem because I saw many of my posts written by me in a forum just the way I wrote no modification or anything.

 
Comment by balootisme
2007-12-30 17:18:47

im copying content from FREE ARTICLES website like articles-hub and articlesfactory.

does this same as stealing? :mrgreen:

 
Comment by apisz
2007-12-30 17:41:51

Im also copying content from free articles website long time ago but no more right now.Im more prefer updating my blog once a month than being a copycat.hu3 :mrgreen:

 
Comment by Rome
2007-12-30 17:53:12

@balootisme

That would depend. It would be ok if you have the permission of who made the post or article. Its also ok if its open for everyone to just copy and paste.

@apisz

nice thing you mended your ways already :)

 
Comment by Thom
2007-12-30 20:53:08

Ridiculing comment left on the splog. Glad to do it, those that steal are bad!

- Thom

 
Comment by Rome
2007-12-30 21:35:25

Thanks Thom! :)

 
Comment by julia
2007-12-30 22:08:26

my blog
http://julia-aquino.blogspot.com
is always a victim of this
scraper site like
boxxet.com
published my blog post
as a consolation they give me a linkback
(too bad!)

 
Comment by julia
2007-12-30 22:09:22

by the way,
how did you find out that they copied your post?!

 
Comment by Rome
2007-12-31 00:17:06

Well, all the links were still there. It was there on the dashboard. :shock:

 
Comment by JoseCa
2007-12-31 05:40:46

If the thief put a link of your blog.. Good :D

 
Comment by Rome
2007-12-31 07:41:47

He did not put the link. He also copied it. Including the ads. lol

 
 
Comment by apisz
2007-12-31 09:24:31

oh! i forget to put the url! :sad: sorry jack.

http://copyscape.com

:cool:

Comment by balootisme
2007-12-31 15:08:43

this site is useful to find duplicate content of our site.

just enter URL. then, they will find automatically our duplicate content.

give it a try :mrgreen:

Comment by Jacky Supit
2008-01-02 17:04:41

thanks for sharing your experiences guys.
nice

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Comment by felix
2007-12-31 19:30:45

hey.. you got new design.. nice :grin:

 
Comment by Rome
2007-12-31 20:11:59

There is a plug in for wordpress that automatically gets the links that are coming to your blog. :) I think. Thats how I found it. :lol:

 
Comment by Keshav Khera
2008-01-01 03:32:25

i think everybody here should click the ‘Flag Blog’ link on the blogger bar over there. google will shut his blog when it receives enough flagging. so, i have done my job, its ur duty now :wink:

 
Comment by julia
2008-01-02 00:03:26

when someone copied (steal) ur post
this means your doing good!
(like me) :evil:

 
Comment by E Akino
2008-01-07 21:45:44

you’ve caught them yeah…but as you said, be it bad or good comments we should not stop blogging right and consistency is the key plus you gave him an idea; to put it first on notepad before pasting it to his blog; now he will splog better :D

 
Comment by Chip
2008-03-08 01:44:35

I have the same problem, I’d not mind if they left a link back

 
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