Stolen content alert
I recently googled for my blog (since I was in Google search anyway) and lo and behold up pops the following website:
This is a verbatim copy of my own blog post by the same title: Does Eating Carbohydrates Cause Diabetes? without attribution.
I post this here to alert others of this website that seems to contain a TON of blog content by who knows how many writers out there. Some of my readers with their own blogs may want to google some of their phrases to make sure they're not having their content swiped.
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I had the same problem. If you have your RSS feed only show partial content that will greatly reduce the stealing. Much easier for them to copy an RSS feed than to go scrape a web site.
Beth Mazur gave me this link: http://perishablepress.com/press/2009/09/23/protect-against-content-thieves/
http://organic.funcrops.com/stolen-content-alert/
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maybe this info will help,
whois: about the scraper site
Reporting Blogger copyright infringement to Google
It would be nice if Blogger had some sort of automated system to check for this kind of thing with their hosted content. The half dozen others I alerted I found by googling long phrases. I plan to write them about some better instruction for setting up the RSS feeds. Something as simple as recommending publishing only partial content or including a default ownership "disclaimer" on all feeds seems very reasonable.
It was really funny how they lifted and published this post in their "Nutrition" section ;-)
I guess this sort of thing happens all the time. :(
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