Virtually Paul

Getting Ripped Off

Maybe this is just the first time it’s happened to me… but has anyone else had vultures coming and stealing their posts and republishing them?

That’s seriously just low. If you want to talk about something, fine, quote part of what I said with a pingback and talk… but ripping off my whole post on some automated site that doesn’t even claim to be anyone… I’m not happy.

I want the post removed immediately.

Copyright and Links Policy

Seeing as the author left me no other recourse, I’ve contacted the host. We’ll see what happens.

Dreamhost support,

It has recently come to my attention that the following URL, which you are hosting, contains plagiarised content from my weblog.

Offending content:
http://gospel.blogarium.net/2007/02/06/the-australian-public-doesn%e2%80%99t-click-with-jesus/

My corresponding post:
http://virtuallypaul.com/2007/02/06/the-australian-public-doesnt-click-with-jesus/

As you can see, the entire content of the post has been syndicated without consent. The owner of the offending website on:

Name: apache2-linus.mills.dreamhost.com
Address: 208.97.170.4

seems to be borrowing and resyndicating content from various blogs.

Please advise as to what action you will be taking towards this violation of your Terms of Service.

Kind regards,
Webmaster
VirtuallyPaul.com

EDIT - I’ve removed actual links to the vultures as this seems to be encouraging their automated pilfering of my content.

Mozilla Firefox: Keyword Searching

I didn’t know about this. It is completely awesome. You can just Ctrl+L into the address bar and type “google whatever” to run a google search on the string “whatever”.

You can even add keywords for your own search engines. eg. gush West Coast Eagles

More info here: http://www.simplehelp.net/2006/09/19/how-to-use-firefoxs-smart-keywords-more-effectively/