Re: wmpowered.com stealing content?

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From: Mauricio Freitas [MVP] (dr.emailposter_at_nowhere.invalid)
Date: 01/12/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:43:24 +1300

I've seen this happening in a variety of cases. I had another site using my
images and denying it after I've sent them an e-mail.

Make sure you have a printed version of both sites. A PDF generator is a
good tool for this, use www.pdf995.com for example.

Contact their webmaster and ask to remove the content. If he/she refuses,
contact their hosting provider with evidence. Either send to their helpdesk
or abuse@... make sure you send evidences and tell them that this is a
copyright violation. If the offending site is hosted in the US invoke the
DMCA and their hosting will have to either have that removed or unplug the
whole domain.

I've done this in a couple of cases and had success. If this fails, then
send an e-mail with a copy via registered mail, asking for the content to be
removed. Otherwise go to a small claims court.

Since this is OT for this newsgroup charter, I suggest you visit
www.webmasterworld.com for some very good discussions on this and other
related. 

-- 
Mauricio Freitas, Microsoft MVP Mobile Devices
Bluetooth guides: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=449
Geekzone Software Store: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/store
Our RSS feeds give you up to date information on new software as soon as 
they're available: http://www.geekzone.co.nz/content.asp?contentid=3344
"Justin Nolan" <justin@connectedmobiles.com> wrote in message 
news:41e58e0e$1$1254$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
>I just found this website - wmpowered.com - from looking at my referring 
>url web stats. I noticed a numbered of their articles are copied from my 
>site, connectedmobiles.com. No credit is given and no links back to my 
>website. Some of it is a direct copy and paste, but they take the time to 
>remove my affiliate url's. It says the content is provided by newsgator, 
>but my RSS feed contains no content... only headlines and links to the 
>article on my site.
>
> The main example is this article from wmpowered.com: 
> http://www.wmpowered.com/PermaLink,guid,c202ab37-8393-4bd8-93ad-aa5fd0cea38a.aspx
>
> Compared to the same article on my site:
> http://www.connectedmobiles.com/index.php?articleid=62
>
> I've never run into this before as a webmaster, and not sure what action I 
> can and should take.
>
> -- 
> Justin Nolan
> ConnectedMobiles
> http://www.connectedmobiles.com
>

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