Article Marketing - It seems that one Warrior is a content thief!

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Once again someone has stolen 3 of my articles and posted them on AMAZINES. Nothing new. I sent a Copyright Infringement Notice to Amazines and UNFORTUNATELY they banned the thief within 1 hour. It was very simple to judge the case: the thief is quite dumb and didn't notice that 2 of the articles were previously posted by me also on AMAZINES (BTW, weird editors at Amazines!).

Why did I say UNFORTUNATELY?

Because the thief was a RARE BIRD and this time I really wanted to take some screen captures from Amazines pages. It was too late when I decided to take the screen captures. Also Google & Yahoo didn't indexed yet the pages so there is no cache.

Why is that thief a rare bird? He has his own server, has a ClickBank account, is a Platinum Author at EzineArticles (!) and has over 500 posts here at Warrior Forum.

I'm 100% sure. Unfortunately now I cannot prove anything unless Ryan Jones, Amazines owner, has backup files for the recent articles (the thief posted the articles on March 20).

You know that it's against the rules to post the name here, but ... please don't send PM's to tell you the name. Now I don't have any proof and I won't tell you the name. As a matter of fact, after posting this ... I will go to my blog and delete the Warrior's name and address.

Then ... Why do I write this post?

I don't care about thiefs but this time I'm really mad and frustrated. I like very much this community and he is here. I price EzinesArticles and he is a PlatinumAuthor there. Arrrgh ... That's why I'm mad

Adrian

P.S. There is one more possibility. Someone wanted to make this Warrior a "nice surprise", got an account with Amazines using the pen name this warrior is using at EzinesArticles, submitted some articles copied from me and added a link to this Warrior's website. So that everyone to believe that that Warrior is the thief. I really hope that this assumption from the P.S. is the real truth!
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    Hi Adrian

    I find this very strange you would expect this behaviour from a newbie not someone of standing on ezinearticles.com this really does bug me why would anyone of good standing do such a thing.

    I bet you'll remmeber for next time though to get evidence saved before you complain!
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    • Profile picture of the author Adrian Jock
      Originally Posted by dsmpublishing View Post

      I bet you'll remmeber for next time though to get evidence saved before you complain!
      I'm not complaining of anything HERE. The complaint was sent to Amazines owner and he banned immediatelly the thief (I wanted to finish first some work I had to do and then to take the screen captures. But Ryan was too quick ). I wrote this post because I was mad. That's all
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  • Profile picture of the author dsmpublishing
    You should mad if someone copied my work i would feel the same theres nothing wrong with that!
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  • Profile picture of the author Taylor French
    Hopefully it's just someone using the same name as the other forum member. I would hate to think someone who had been around here for a long time would be that stupid.
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    • Profile picture of the author Adrian Jock
      Originally Posted by Taylor French View Post

      Hopefully it's just someone using the same name as the other forum member. I would hate to think someone who had been around here for a long time would be that stupid.
      You're right, I feel the same. But there was not only the same pen name. I was not mainly looking at the pen name. The thief's profile contained also the link to the website owned by that Warrior.
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  • Profile picture of the author Carl Hughes
    The stupid part of it all is that Google would most likely slap it as dup content (I assume it had not been substantially rewritten) so there for I don't even see what he thought he would get out of this benefit wise:confused:
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    • Profile picture of the author Adrian Jock
      Originally Posted by Carl Hughes View Post

      The stupid part of it all is that Google would most likely slap it as dup content (I assume it had not been substantially rewritten) so there for I don't even see what he thought he would get out of this benefit wise:confused:
      The articles were not rewritten at all. Simply copy & paste. But you're wrong about Google. It doesn't slap articles as dup content. If you want proofs, PM me.
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      • Profile picture of the author PatriciaJ
        You would be surprised at just how many submit plagiarised articles to directories and it doesn't matter where they are a platinum author. Sometimes it's partial content sometimes whole. It's a time consuming pain in the butt checking but it needs to be done.

        But, no matter where you always get the bad eggs and they are usually in the minority. They are the losers, they must be if they are so desperate.
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        • Profile picture of the author Adrian Jock
          Originally Posted by PatriciaJ View Post

          You would be surprised at just how many submit plagiarised articles to directories and it doesn't matter where they are a platinum author.
          Patricia, I'm very surprised because EzineArticles is the sole directory I know where the articles are really checked carefully before being published. For this reason ... I quite believe that the articles posted by that Warrior on EzineArticles are original and not copied. That's why my P.S. from OP. However, I don't know what is the truth
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  • Profile picture of the author Droopy Dawg
    People copy content... it happens. Just make sur you protect yourself. You can go to EZA and google damm near any title and you'll get 5 or 6 article dirctories with the exact same article posted. Most times its not the original author that submitted to all these sites... but rather people "stealing" content.

    You're not the 1st... and you won't be the last.

    Sorry you're going thru this crap
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    • Profile picture of the author Adrian Jock
      Originally Posted by Droopy Dawg View Post

      You're not the 1st... and you won't be the last.

      Sorry you're going thru this crap
      You're 100% right and it's not the first time when someone copied my articles. This happens all the time.

      I was actually mad because it is 50% possible (for the rest of 50% see the P.S. from OP) that the thief is a Warrior and a Platinum Author at EZA.
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    • Profile picture of the author TimG
      Originally Posted by Droopy Dawg View Post

      People copy content... it happens. Just make sur you protect yourself. You can go to EZA and google damm near any title and you'll get 5 or 6 article dirctories with the exact same article posted. Most times its not the original author that submitted to all these sites... but rather people "stealing" content.

      You're not the 1st... and you won't be the last.

      Sorry you're going thru this crap
      In most cases this is true but sometimes the author may have pen names setup for different directories so although the article is the same the author name may be different. This is a bit of a pain to do because sometimes EZA will flag the article on EZA as not being the original until youo can prove that you are the author and the other article is one of your pen names.

      Tim
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