HELP! My Content is being stolen like crazy! | Help Desk | Yakezie Forums

Post edited 8:04 am – October 27, 2011 by Jeremy @ Personal Finance Whiz

Glen Craig – Free From Broke said:

 

@ Jeremy – Where are you filing?  From my experience, unless a site is violating big G's TOS, they expect you to file the DMCA with the host.

Go here: http://www.google.com/support/…..ts=1114905

Select on "Web Search"

Then select "I have a legal issue that is not mentioned above"

Then select "I have found content that may violate my copyright"

Finally select "Yes, I am the copyright owner or am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed"

There will be a couple of other questions you need to answer. That will lead you to this form: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/dmca-notice?pli=1&

Fill out that form and you should hear something back within a day or two. 

Here's the response from my most recent complaint:

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

In accordance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we have completed
processing your infringement complaint. The following webpages will be
removed from Google in a few hours:

http://currentsciencearticles

Do bloggers need to have a copyright notice on their blog to be somewhat protected?

This same guy, thathiren@gmail.com, is copying my posts to another site.

beatrice.zoko.in

Here is the whois info.

Tech Email:thathiren@gmail.com

Name Server:NS1.MD-9.WEBHOSTBOX.NET

Name Server:NS2.MD-9.WEBHOSTBOX.NET

I sent in the links to Google, but how do I find his hosting company? 

ZOKO.IN SITE INFORMATION

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

How do these people sleep at night?!?

Here is what I got from the Google team. Thanks for nothing Google Team.

Hello,

Thanks for reaching out to us.

We have received and reviewed your DMCA complaint. At this time, Google
has decided not to take action based on our policies concerning content
removal. As always, we encourage you to resolve any disputes directly with
the owner of the website in question.

If you pursue legal action against this site that results in the removal
of the offending material, our search results will display this change
after we next crawl the site. If the webmaster makes these changes and you
need us to expedite the removal of the cached copy, please submit your
request using our webpage removal request tool at
http://www.google.com/webmaste…..s/removals

Regards,

The Google Team

Post edited 1:14 pm – December 14, 2011 by Larry @ The Skilled Investor

retireby40's reply from Google is in line with what I found on the Google site about these matters. In fact, if you follow the Google site reporting tree to the logical destinations, you also find that Google copies all such reports that it gets to chillingeffects.org. But, it does not seem that chillingeffects.org will do anything, because they are part of the Electronic Frontier foundation and their mission, in part, is to prevent the abuse of DMCA to suppress content on the web.

If someone really wants to pull the plug on this site and takes it to the ISP, then the site will just move to a different ISP. DMCA will only remove the material of the site complaining and only that is if zoko.in responds. Since the site is in the .in domain is managed by NIXI in India, DMCA is pretty useless.

Probably the most effective long-term strategy to shut down these thieves entirely is simply to wait to see if they try to monetize the site. Since by using stolen content, they would automatically violate the TOS of any advertizer, those ads would not last long.

THE REAL PROBLEM, HOWEVER, IS THAT BLOGGERS ARE CARELESS BY APPROVING SPAM LINKBACKS!

Of the 125 linkbacks to zoko.in, Alexa lists linkbacks from the top 100 websites. I just analyzed the top 100 list and stripped out the non-financial links which left 33 financially oriented sites linking to zoko.in. Although I am new to Yakezie, I recognize a lot of Yakezie sites on the list below.

If Yakezie bloggers want to take away the incentive for people to steal their content, then they should stop handing out free linkbacks to illegitimate websites. Bloggers need to pay attention to whether they are providing a linkback to a legitimate site when they moderate comments. When in doubt, look at the site before approving the linkback. If the site is smelly, classify the link request as a spam link.

Also, if you see your site listed below (some are listed more than once), you could/should go in and remove the linkback that you have already granted by reclassifying it as spam. Just find your permalink below and bring up your page. Then, open the page html source in your browser, and search for "zoko". Then, find the link you already approved in your comments list, but don't just delete it. Instead, indicate that it is spam. The only reason why I even remember zoko.in, was that Akismet listed it as a potentially legitimate comment rather than spam. I checked it out and spammed the comment. If a lot of bloggers do this, then Akismet is much more likely classify zoko.in as spam across all blogs, and that would help to bring an end to
this site.

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I've also noticed trackbacks that look like carnival links that have been put through a spinner. I control my comments pretty tightly to avoid handing out links to undeserving spammers.