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What Should I Do About This Sneaky Content Thief?

by Roy@LifeLessonsBlog
4 replies
I googled the name of one of my articles today in quotes and came across someone that had ripped off my whole article verbatim and put it on his site, giving no credit to me of course.

I was about to contact him and tell him to take it down immediately, when I noticed the date on it. The sneaky little thief made the date of his post 11 days before the date when I posted it on my blog.

I checked the Wayback Machine Internet Archive but of course the only archive they have of his site is from 2007. Is there anything I can do or do I just have to let it go? He can claim he didn't steal it because he shows a posting date before mine.
#content #content thief #plagarism #sneaky #thief
  • Profile picture of the author Anon7
    Have you tried checking the cached version in Google or Yahoo, etc? If the cached image shows it's not there during the date posted, that might at least prove your point enough to tell him/her to knock it off. I'd tell them to knock it off anyway and take it down.

    That's pretty low... I've never heard of anyone faking the date in their database before. That might fool some readers, but not a search bot. At any rate, I think that Google will probably index your article higher because it really existed first, and the thief will just be considered a duplicate post.
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  • Profile picture of the author bobcath
    Contact once, if he takes down or replaces link, great!

    If not, imo its not worth the hassle of chasing up, spend your time more productively.

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  • Profile picture of the author Roy@LifeLessonsBlog
    Anon7,

    Checked the cache in Google and Yahoo, only went back to March 1. I originally posted the article in October of 2009. His site actually shows up as the 4th result when I did the search in quotes for it, my blog shows up as 7th. My other distributions of the article to ezinearticles, articlesbase, etc. show up in the other spots.

    tomtompick and Nuno,

    I was going to do those things until I noticed he has the date changed to be before mine, he can just claim that it's his article.

    bobcath,

    That's probably what I'll do unless someone can come up with a way for me to prove its mine. I am definitely making a new Google Alert for each article I write from now on.
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