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When NOT to issue a DMCA notice

by rosetrees
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As you probably know, I usually issue Cease and Desist notices when I find my articles reprinted without the resource box.

In this case, I'm going to make an exception. I know it was my article originally because the site contains several articles with my original titles.

However - I had to laugh at the seriously badly spun content. In fact, I'm going to utilise the comments box to place a link back to my real site.

This is the spun version:

Bridge is definitely an renowned game. Carry out some a bridge golfer You can be An individual a satisfied As well Actual Friendly life.

I recall Lake the entire Directly into Take pleasure in Avoided flat. Give a simple Simple neighbours discontinued me Which are Area situation And in addition instructed A lot more wagered bridge. For long periods I didn't, You receive Wedding party that really playing, Maybe studying to make money play, bridge fantastic style of Achieving Absolutely new people.
Just for fun, here is some of the original. I'm still struggling to work out what the spinner did to it.

Bridge is a very popular game. If you are a bridge player you are guaranteed a full and active social life.

I remember when I moved into my second flat. One of my neighbours stopped me in the hall way and asked if I played bridge. Back then I didn’t, but I know now that playing, or learning to play, bridge is a great way of meeting new people.
#dmca #issue #notice
  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

    I recall Lake the entire Directly into Take pleasure in Avoided flat.
    Funny they should say that: I remember it well, myself, too ... such are the trials and tribulations of the bridge circuit ...
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      ................. and another quote from a different article on the same site:

      A different natural protested that we was not sufficiently well You intend to placed a bridge Sophisticated can give Diet plan With The width of his Pc workstation And as a result said To positively purchase a hand. I quote That correctly, Along with With the The particular reasons. And also is The suv wrong!
      I can't be bothered to look to see what I originally wrote! Perhaps I should start a contest to see if anyone can recreate the original from that.
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    • Profile picture of the author cringwall
      I find my blog posts often online- used by auto-blogger bots with my original title and badly spun body content. One tip I found helpful for bloggers: to make sure your original post is the FIRST one Google finds and indexes - use this plugin to delay your post's appearance on your blog's feed: Feed Delay for Wordpress - Kavoshgar

      I delay my feed by 2 weeks. That way I'm sure my original post will be the one Google puts in the search results - the rest go to supplemental results. May not be useful for bloggers who value timeliness of their posts - but for me, it's been very useful.
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    • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
      Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

      Funny they should say that: I remember it well, myself, too ... such are the trials and tribulations of the bridge circuit ...
      Bahh, forget it - it's all water under the bridge.

      I think what he's saying is he "recalls driving directly to the lake to engage in pleasure with his girlfriend whilst lying flat, and endured listening to Take That for the entire journey"???

      Heck, I think that'd be enough to scramble anyone's brain to the point of causing them to write like that. :p
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  • Profile picture of the author webapex
    Another recent post links to The Google webmaster guide on duplicate content, which advises that usually, scraped content will not harm you, since Google knows you had the content first, but suggested using DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) in some cases..$.7/m $7/m
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  • Profile picture of the author Leveragist
    Yes, let them continue to "write" badly spun articles. It only makes us *real* writers look better.

    I like the idea of the feed delay recommended by cringwall. Not only for the reason he stated, but also because I'm a bit OCD about constantly editing my posts after it's been published. Somehow I always manage to find grammar mistakes and ways I could've worded something a little better.
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  • Profile picture of the author sonicadam123
    Wow, thats the worst spun article i've ever seen, and I know some of my articles have been spun badly ... so funny.

    Good call not sending a cease and desist to them over this, having trash like that on a persons site will just make them look really bad and make them a laughing stock
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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      It's obviously the silly season today. I just found another blog - this one doesn't have one of my articles (real or spun).

      It contains a made-up article which is a collection of meta-descriptions from my site, my friend's site and a couple of others. Just put together to look like sentences.

      Underneath it contains this helpful warning:

      Contains learning and analysis features: juglans hindsii ammonia in a fish tank.....
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  • Profile picture of the author kindsvater
    I assume this idiot was also not making you look bad by including your name as the author of that mess.

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    • Profile picture of the author rosetrees
      Originally Posted by kindsvater View Post

      I assume this idiot was also not making you look bad by including your name as the author of that mess.

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      No - no reference to me or my site at all! Although I have posted a comment saying it's a badly spun version with a link back to the original if anyone wants to read the real thing
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      • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
        Originally Posted by rosetrees View Post

        No - no reference to me or my site at all! Although I have posted a comment saying it's a badly spun version with a link back to the original if anyone wants to read the real thing
        Yes, I've done this before.

        I have one website in a niche in which manufacturers occasionally send me pre-launch products to review (I get to keep many of them, too! ), and those are routinely copied and spun or rewritten by "writers"/webmasters of other sites who aren't in the same position.

        I can always tell they're based on mine, even if they were clearly rewritten by hand, because they follow the same same format and they make exactly the same number of points of exactly the same nature, etc.

        Where possible, every time it happens, I go and leave a comment along the lines of "Hey, nice review - shame it's completely plagiarised from <here>".

        Would you believe it, but sometimes they actually turn up on "bigger, respectable sites", not just crap sites run by "SEO spammers". Shameful, LOL.
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