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Old 31-05-2007, 01:02 PM
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Last weekend I discovered that a reasonably high profile blog was ripping off my content:

Content Theft - What To Do?

I didn't want to name and shame until I'd had some form of reply from the perp, but I put a name on them last night:

DomainNews.com Steal Other Sites’ Content
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Old 31-05-2007, 07:21 PM
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******s!

I feel a little bit of digging and the heavy use of nofollow coming on.
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Old 01-06-2007, 08:42 AM
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Looks like it made it onto Digg:
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Old 03-06-2007, 12:30 PM
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Seems like my blog posts are beginning to rank well ... I wonder will they even notice.....
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Well at least you known your writing good quailty content, if others steal it I say let them. Email the site and ask for a link back to your site
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Old 13-07-2007, 02:25 PM
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They've finally started posting replies to the blog post:
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Very interesting reading. He didn't handle that to well, did he?
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Not really. By the sound of it is some young fella trying to make few bobs but he met his match.
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Not really. By the sound of it is some young fella trying to make few bobs but he met his match.
Err no. He's not.
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