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The Business Blog at Intuitive.com
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Dave Taylor has been involved with the Internet since 1980 and
is widely recognized as an expert on both technical and business
issues. He has been published over a thousand times, launched four Internet-related
startup companies, has written twenty business and technical books and holds both an MBA and MS Ed.
Dave maintains four weblogs:
The Business Blog at Intuitive.com,
Ask Dave Taylor,
Dave On Film,
and
Attachment Parenting Blog.
Dave is an award-winning speaker, sought after conference and workshop participant and
frequent guest on radio and podcast programs.
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Duplicate content? Complain to the hosting company
A few days ago I got a note from a reader that they'd found an exact duplicate of one of my more complicated articles on Ask Dave Taylor hosted on a second-tier blogging platform. Not so good, but honestly, I figured that it was probably more trouble to try and shut it down than it was worth, because it's not like copying one part off my 2500+ page site is going to adversely affect me in the online world.
However, theft of intellectual property is still theft, so I composed a quick message to the "abuse" account of the hosting company:
Hello. It's come to my attention from a reader that one of the blogs on your site has a page that's a direct rip-off of a page of my own. His page:
http://harbic.blogsome.com/2008/07/05/how-do-i-install-windows-xp-on-my-mac-with-parallels-desktop/
And my original page:
http://www.askdavetaylor.com/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_my_mac_with_parallels_desktop_1.html
Rather than hassle with DMCA takedown notices, filing complaints with Google, etc, I'd appreciate if you can just drop this page from this user's site, along with a warning to him about wholesale theft of content.
Thank you for your prompt attention.
Much to my surprise and delight, I received the following message from from their administrator within 20 hours:
Hi Dave,
We've deleted the blog in question. Thanks for bringing it to our attention.
Regards,
Roger
My kudos to the Blogsome team for dealing with a nuisance complaint in a speedy and appropriate manner, and I encourage you to also take at least this first step of complaining to the hosting company of a site that's ripping off your own content to see what happens.
Ya just never know, it might be just that easy...
Indeed, I concur, and yet, like you expressed this problem is getting bigger.
Posted by: Lance Winslow on August 7, 2009 1:18 AM
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