Warning: Blog stealing writer's work

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   Dean Traylorposted 8 years ago

   Hello to all fellow writers,
   
   the following site Pitlane Magazine (pitlanemagazine.com) has stolen several articles of mine. They've been doing this for a while, considering that one article dates back to my Helium days. You may want to find out if they took anything from you. At this point, I'm gathering whatever information I can in order to report them. If you've dealt with them, however, and you have the proper information to get the ball rolling against this site.
   
   Thank you.
   
   p.s. The site chose its name wisely. It is very close in name to a legitimate website about racing.

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      theraggededgeposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Send them an invoice for each stolen article.

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      Stacie Lposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      I wanted to  check for my articles but my security software is warning me to not open it

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      Dean Traylorposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks to all that responded. I've taken the steps to rectify the situation. The thing that gets me is that this site has been doing this for years. And, it appears they had targeted Helium...meaning they culled these articles for three or four years (although most of these articles were published on their sites in 2015 and early 2016).
      To date I found more articles. The remainder had been taken down before Helium went belly-up and they haven't been re-posted by me since then.
      I've used whois.com...which helped for a site like this. Still, it's annoying,...

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         Dean Traylorposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Word to advice other former Helium writers: if you plan to republish an article, make sure to check this site to see if it was illegally published at Pitlane Magazine.

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   Marisa Wrightposted 8 years ago

   http://whois.domaintools.com/pitlanemagazine.com

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   Dean Traylorposted 7 years ago

   If you use to post on Helium, there's another site that has stolen a lot of articles from you. The site is called WH-Magazine. The individual that runs this site culled nearly all the education articles -- and didn't even bother to edit much of (used the same titles) . To date, I've counted at least ten articles of mine...and I'm not finished looking.
   
   If you check it out and have an article published without your approval, you may want to contact DMCA. I'v already contacted them and haven't seen any changes to remove these articles.

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      lobobrandonposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      If they have adsesne send in a DMCA there so that they lose their Adsense account. Also, send in a DMCA to the hosting company, most take down these websites.

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   jennzieposted 7 years ago

   Thanks for the warning. I haven't written on Helium in years, but I'll check both websites anyway to make sure none of my old articles were stolen.

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   Dean Traylorposted 4 years ago

   Update: While it took a long, long time (as of this writing it has been four years) for some action taken against the two sites that lifted old Helium articles before its demise, they have been shut down.  Pitlane has been down for nearly a year while WH-Magazine appears to have been shut down a couple of months ago. Still, there are other nefarious sites out there that may have lifted articles from previous sites that don't exist anymore or from Hubpages. Always be wary. In addition, it's best to rewrite old articles from former or defunct sites before posting them on Hubpages. It might be time consuming, but you'd probably come away with a much better article.

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   Dean Traylorposted 3 years ago

   A new low: So I discovered that one of those essay writing service sites lifted an article of mine; however,  the article was:
   
   1. a flash-fiction tale from Letter Pile....and posted on a site offering to "sell" essays to college students.
   2. They may have included my name, but there's  no link to my original publication.
   3. speaking of  original publication, the article was horribly butchered. Did they copy-pasted the article with an auto-correct on (which, in true auto-correct fashion, altered words in the most convoluted and incorrect way possible)?
   I don't know what is the worst; having somebody lifting your article, leaving your name out and taking credit for it or somebody posting (without consent) a poorly written version of an article with your name still attached to it.

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   Jodahposted 3 years ago

   This is a pain. So many thieves, so little time or inclination.

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