11 Responses to “Why do some people think copying content is a good idea?”

1. Wormbrain Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm

   1 What’s interesting is that it looks like he pinched the raw html, including links back to your site and everything. This probably won’t help but.. “Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery”

2. swollenpickles Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 1:14 pm

   2 What’s interesting is that it looks like he pinched the raw html, including links back to your site and everything. That’s the weirdest thing! He/she has even linked to the comments of each post. Bizarre.

3. ShadowKnight Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 8:18 pm

   3 I love Terry Tate flicks seen quite a few including this one. However I really enjoyed seeing it again. As for the knob jockey that stole the content I hope he feels ashamed of his shameful acts.

4. Babyamore (Trish) Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 11:18 pm

   4 I may get ‘link’ inspiration from other peoples’ posts /links but I always look it up myself, rewrite, chose my own links - etc but I never copy whole content and I mostly write …a link to them directly. I will be more careful not to imitate their copy too… you tube links can be very good for a lazy blogging day. thanks for sharing … it was brilliant what you did and even more so with bulls test tickles

5. Beth Posted: Jan 21st, 2008 at 11:51 pm

   5 I’ve struggled with this for about 3 months now. The sploggers basically steal your content to add to sites that have affiliate links- and most of them never go to your blog, they pick up the posts through your feed. The only thing I’ve come up with was a WordPress plugin, (email me for the name because I can’t remember it), that adds a copyright notice right before the post’s feed begins. Mine says something like “if you aren’t reading this as a subscriber via a feed reader then the content has been stolen…” and I provide a link to my contact page. No one has ever contacted me, so I doubt these blogs, at least yet, are getting much traffic.

6. Wormbrain Posted: Jan 22nd, 2008 at 2:53 am

   6 If you haven’t already, you may want to check out Copyscape some interesting reads from the same site Preventing Plagiarism Responding to Plagiarism

7. blankshooting Posted: Jan 22nd, 2008 at 5:32 am

   7 you are steal-worthy! you’re like the man of steal. blue steal. steal magnolia. anyway, terry tate rocks! triple t is up in this bitch!!!

8. swollenpickles Posted: Jan 22nd, 2008 at 8:00 am

   8 The only thing I’ve come up with was a WordPress plugin, (email me for the name because I can’t remember it), that adds a copyright notice right before the post’s feed begins. Thanks Beth, I gave that plugin a try for a while. In this case I think wormbrain is right, it looks like they’ve cut and pasted the html from my front page, which seems like a bizarre way of going about it. you are steal-worthy! you’re like the man of steal. blue steal. steal magnolia. anyway, terry tate rocks! triple t is up in this bitch!!! Awe thanks buddy. I’ve got a warm fuzzy feeling now. Best part of office linebacker is the, “Hey Janice..”

9. PickledEel Posted: Jan 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm

   9 It is the pickle that attracts them. I have had the same sort of perverse flattery - little comfort I know. Bizarre since all the links came back to my blog anyway, though I am not witnessing any increased traffic from the “mirror” sites. Why would one bother?

10. Minibus Driver Posted: Jan 30th, 2008 at 4:25 am

    10 The only good thing I suppose is that he/she thinks that you’re story was good enough for their blog too!!! does annoy me though people can’t think for themselves!!!

11. Hory Bathx Posted: Feb 2nd, 2008 at 7:37 pm

    11 Well if someone is stealing it, it is worthy of it, that is the only consolation… If they are snagging images, there are tricks you can do to screw their happiness. cheers GR