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Nice Website, popular niche, pretty editors, stealing articles

by Scott Ames
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I found a professional site in a popular niche that looks like it has everything together. It looks good, it has a nice about page with a couple of pretty female editors/owners, it has ads and lots of content.

The only problem is that the article content is coming from EzineArticles and they don't include the author box on any of them, nor do they include a byline. To a casual reader it looks like the content is all theirs. I found it because one of my articles is there and it was only submitted once to EzineArticles.

I wonder how common this is...geez.
#articles #editors #nice #niche #popular #pretty #stealing #website
  • Profile picture of the author Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter
    You, sir, are a buzz kill.

    Oh, wait, wrong thread. Carry on.
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    • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
      Originally Posted by Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter View Post

      You, sir, are a buzz kill.

      Oh, wait, wrong thread. Carry on.
      Hahahahahaha! I am aren't I ?
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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    I should add that the site belongs to a national magazine. Just amazing.
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    • Profile picture of the author sevenish
      Originally Posted by Scott Ames View Post

      I should add that the site belongs to a national magazine. Just amazing.
      Then I'll bet they have stringent plagiarism policies in place. I'd contact them.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kay King
    I should add that the site belongs to a national magazine. Just amazing.
    Could they be using an independent contractor for that site? If so, they may not know what's happening.

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  • Profile picture of the author Mukul Verma
    "Nice Website, popular niche, pretty editors, stealing articles"

    This sounds like a IM Fantasy story. One of those story that hardcore IMer read late in the night.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter
    Excerpt from "Nice Website, popular niche, pretty editors, stealing articles":

    She was pretty. No, scratch that. She was beyond pretty, beyond sexy. They all were--every last thieving one of them. The minute Scott saw her, he was smitten. He knew then and there he would give her anything she asked for--and he wouldn't put up a fight. His articles. His soul. She owned them now. And he knew. He knew. He would never see them again. And a part of him didn't care.
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    • Profile picture of the author Mukul Verma
      Originally Posted by Kevin-VirtualProfitCenter View Post

      Excerpt from "Nice Website, popular niche, pretty editors, stealing articles":

      She was pretty. No, scratch that. She was beyond pretty, beyond sexy. They all were--every last thieving one of them. The minute Scott saw her, he was smitten. He knew then and there he would give her anything she asked for--and he wouldn't put up a fight. His articles. His soul. She owned them now. And he knew. He knew. He would never see them again. And a part of him didn't care.
      LOL..........when is the WSO for this.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andrew G Gowans
    Hi Scott,

    I could say join the club but it does not make the bitter pill any easier to swallow.

    It has happened to me a few times.

    I put a lot of effort into my writing and it really hacks me off when the due recognition isn't given. Fortunately these pirates are few and far between by comparison (well, I hope so).

    The best one though was when EZA bounced an article as duplicate and belonging to someone else. I had to prove by date checks that the actual content was taken from one of my website pages which had been set up months before the thief had taken it and submitted the content as his own to EZA.

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  • Profile picture of the author yoshiko
    I too recently found a few of my articles taken from EZA and GoArticles and my resource boxes not used. I think i am unwillingly getting use to this.
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    • Profile picture of the author Vikuna2009+
      Originally Posted by yoshiko View Post

      I too recently found a few of my articles taken from EZA and GoArticles and my resource boxes not used. I think i am unwillingly getting use to this.


      So what CAN you actually do about it??? Could you somehow date it and put a Google Alert on it?

      What about some secret coding that would take down their site, should they dare to copy your hard work? (Think Pacman, gooble, gooble, gooble, lol).

      Or, upon threspassing your property (article), add quite a few wrinkles to their former pretty faces, ha, ha, ha.

      Scott, consider yourself honored, at least someone thought your article was good enough to replicate and take honor-ship of it.

      Seriously though, I would be p****d off myself. Go get em'
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    A major magazine. Hmmmmm. Is the editor's name sue me? Just a thought.

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  • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
    Let's see what happens. I am sending the hosting company and the magazine a cease and desist.
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