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Help with plagerizer Please

by petevamp
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Hello warriors and thank you for your time and support on this matter. I have just found an article of my well a blurb of my article. However this guy does have a link stating to finish reading the article go to such such link with a link to a site other then my own. To top it off this guy is directing them to a porn site as if they created the article.

Normally I have no issues getting sites like this shut down. However the problem is when I did a whois check it shows the guy is hosting the site himself. There for by going through the normal procedures it is unlikely he will take it down or add my link.

So my question to all of you is this. How do I shut this guy down since he is hosting the site himself and not through a hosting company. Also can I seek damages for him doing this with the first paragraph to my article. I normally do not push things further but this just P.O's the hell out of me since he is using my automotive article to promote a porn site. Is there no decency in this guy.

The only thing I see about any hosting is from godaddy however it is just stating that is where the domain name was purchased. You know to top this all off the article was just indexed less then 2 days ago and yes it is already on the front page. However I also see his site on the front page as well which is going to do nothing but hurt my site while he keeps that crap up for the people who are really searching for the information I placed in this article.

Now I know why I take just about every article of mine and create a google alert. Even though my email box gets bombarded daily for doing so but it helps fight these plagiarizers.
#plagerizer
  • Profile picture of the author scrofford
    Depending where the person is, you could send a cease and desist and threaten an attorney if they don't remove the content.
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  • Profile picture of the author Steven Carl Kelly
    You say he's hosting the site himself: does that mean the server is living in his bedroom or he has a dedicated server in someone else's facility?

    If the former, send him a DMCA notice and send it to whatever company provides the connectivity to his Web server. If the latter, send the notices to him and the company that runs the facility where his server is housed AND the connectivity provider.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lloyd Buchinski
      Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly View Post

      You say he's hosting the site himself: does that mean the server is living in his bedroom or he has a dedicated server in someone else's facility?

      If the former, send him a DMCA notice and send it to whatever company provides the connectivity to his Web server. If the latter, send the notices to him and the company that runs the facility where his server is housed AND the connectivity provider.
      Good info. If he is just running it out of the bedroom his ISP might want to cut that off.
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      • Profile picture of the author mcmahanusa
        Does anyone else see the irony in the thought of someone providing links to a porn site from his bedroom?
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    • Profile picture of the author petevamp
      Originally Posted by Steven Carl Kelly View Post

      You say he's hosting the site himself: does that mean the server is living in his bedroom or he has a dedicated server in someone else's facility?

      If the former, send him a DMCA notice and send it to whatever company provides the connectivity to his Web server. If the latter, send the notices to him and the company that runs the facility where his server is housed AND the connectivity provider.

      It appears that he is hosting it him self. In the who is section it shows the registar for the domain was godaddy and the site is located on ns1.coolcustomtshirts.com So it may be that he is using a dedicated server. It looks to me that he may be hosting it him self though with a ns like that. I am going to check that domain now to see what that one says.
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      • Profile picture of the author petevamp
        I just checked to who is for that cool custom shirts and it once again shows the ns as the cool custom shirts. However there is a section just below that that says something about tierra.net I wonder if this is his actual host.
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      • Profile picture of the author JohnMcCabe
        Originally Posted by petevamp View Post

        It appears that he is hosting it him self. In the who is section it shows the registar for the domain was godaddy and the site is located on ns1.coolcustomtshirts.com So it may be that he is using a dedicated server. It looks to me that he may be hosting it him self though with a ns like that. I am going to check that domain now to see what that one says.
        Just because he has his own name servers does not mean he's hosting the site himself or using a dedicated server. All it means is that he probably has a reseller account with a name server thrown in.

        That's how I run my reseller account through Hostgator. If you checked my site, it would show the name of my marketing company.

        I did it as a layer of protection for my self-hosted autoresponder system. Any spam complaints lodged with the host or the name server come directly to me via the marketing company address.

        I wonder if doing a trace route would show you the real host? Any hard core system techies out there?
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        • Profile picture of the author petevamp
          Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post

          Just because he has his own name servers does not mean he's hosting the site himself or using a dedicated server. All it means is that he probably has a reseller account with a name server thrown in.

          That's how I run my reseller account through Hostgator. If you checked my site, it would show the name of my marketing company.

          I did it as a layer of protection for my self-hosted autoresponder system. Any spam complaints lodged with the host or the name server come directly to me via the marketing company address.

          I wonder if doing a trace route would show you the real host? Any hard core system techies out there?
          A techie would be nice. It would actually be really nice I have already found 5 sites who are linking to this guy using the piece of my article off his site. So I am currently in full watch mode trying to contact and explain to each of these sites that hhe is in violation of my copyrighted content and politely asking them to switch the link to the original source instead. This one article has pretty much already gone viral which would be good if they were linking to the true source and not to some guy who is directing them to a porn site instead.
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        • Profile picture of the author DogScout
          Originally Posted by JohnMcCabe View Post


          I wonder if doing a trace route would show you the real host? Any hard core system techies out there?
          I only know how to back trace, enter the Bios and shut the fans off.:rolleyes:

          CD probably can get a location?
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          • Profile picture of the author bretski
            what if you do a whois by the ip address?...or even an adjoining ip if the whois doesn't show the isp? Like bump the last number up or down one digit. Ip addresses are owned in blocks usually.

            I don't know if it would help to get in touch with ICANN?
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    Nope I just contacted the live support over at tierra.net and they do not show it on their records of sites. There for he has to be hosting it himself.
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  • Profile picture of the author petevamp
    You know what ticks me off the most is now because of one site. I will be spending the next week trying to clean up the mess he has created.
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  • Profile picture of the author Janet Sawyer
    Pete can you pm me the actual url, I think I have the information you are looking for.
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    • Profile picture of the author Bill Farnham
      Fwiw, the OP is an older post that was dug up by a drive-by sig spammer that's been nuked from the thread. Perhaps the problem has been solved. (Then again, maybe not...)

      I guess we'll see...

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      • Profile picture of the author Janet Sawyer
        Originally Posted by Bill Farnham View Post

        Fwiw, the OP is an older post that was dug up by a drive-by sig spammer that's been nuked from the thread. Perhaps the problem has been solved. (Then again, maybe not...)

        I guess we'll see...

        ~Bill
        Oh pooh Bill, so it is, this was posted a month ago so the problem has more than likely been resolved. No wonder my request to the OP today via pm has not been answered. No worries with that if the problem has been (AS POIROT WOULD SAY) sol'ved!
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  • Profile picture of the author sarahberra
    Yikes! What a creep! Shut him down! Contact google and they will at least remove him from the SERP's.
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