A blog with 100's of our Hubs copied- sorry to be a pain in the a$$

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   wordscribe41posted 13 years ago

   A blog called You and Me magazine (http: //www.sunday136.cn/) and Buyu Food (  http: //buyu369.cn/?p=274) has stolen 100's of our Hubs.  I've contacted some of the hubbers whose work I've found, but now realize the enormity of the theft and can't individually contact everyone.  This blog is not Adsense enabled.  I can't figure out how to contact anyone on the site.  I've just posted comments on my stolen hubs asking them to be taken down.  Any ideas what can be done (Sunforged will no doubt have a great idea).  It's just a really weird site, check it out.
   
   Sorry to be the bearer of bad news after the docstoc debacle, but, as a victim of this site's theft as well as docstoc's, I figured any hubber affected would want to know. 
   
   Thanks, all.

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      Beth100posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      She's taken some of my hubs too -- blew that steam last night until the stars were twinkling off this morning.  Frankly, it's copied word for word, and it doesn't help to keep steaming over it.  If they really want to steal, they'll find a way.
      
      It's unfortunate, but take it as a compliment that your writing is great and worthy of being stolen! 

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   Jane@CMposted 13 years ago

   I looked through it last night. It seems all of the posts were made 5/18.

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      wordscribe41posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I still don't like it, pretty much everything there is taken from HP.  I'd like to figure out how to get it down, can't figure out any way to trace the blog.  It's very irritating.

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   wordscribe41posted 13 years ago

   This person has another new website up called Buyu Foods where there is hubbers work:  http://buyu369.cn/?p=274

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   Eaglekiwiposted 13 years ago

   Thanks bubblicious Im gonna take a look

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   lrohnerposted 13 years ago

   The problem is that they're not displaying AdSense, so not much you can do there. Although their publisher ID is clearly available but the ads aren't showing up. The domain is in China, so not much to do there either. I think Sunforged said it was a blogger blog? Could be. Looks like it. Google owns Blogger, so you could try reporting it to them.

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   sunforgedposted 13 years ago

   Here is the whois info for the site
   
   Domain Name: sunday136.cn
   ROID: 20081231s10001s27536752-cn
   Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited
   Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited
   Registrant Organization: ?????????????
   Registrant Name: ????????????
   Administrative Email: wunai123wunai@163.com
   Sponsoring Registrar: ??????????????????????????
   Name Server:ns1.dreamhost.com
   Name Server:ns2.dreamhost.com
   Name Server:ns3.dreamhost.com
   Registration Date: 2008-12-31 22:21
   Expiration Date: 2009-12-31 22:21
   
   
   Since it hasnt been updated in months, i owuldnt be surprised if its never renewed next month
   
   Blanking all the registrant info is against ICANN regulations, if you wanted to pursue it, you can have the site quickly taken down for false or missing registrar info
   
   http://www.icann.org/en/compliance/faq.html#part4
   
   
   lrohner, i dont think that was me ..its a wordpress site on its own domain, so its not blogger

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   wordscribe41posted 13 years ago

   Her new one is Wordpress:
   
   Here's an example:
   http://hubpages.com/hub/Put-Youself-In-The-Cows-Shoes
   http://buyu369.cn/?p=1092

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   Sufidreamerposted 13 years ago

   Wouldn't worry about that one too much - I have had problems with Chinese sites.
   
   They tend to disappear from the search engines pretty quickly

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   Francis911posted 13 years ago

   I hope my hubs are secured.

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    sunforgedposted 13 years ago

    Contacting DreamHost would work also.
    
    Not sure if you should be worried about this one to much.
    
    My prelim research shows almost no traffic to the site and I tested a small piece of text taken from a hub that is copied onto teh site.
    
    "Disney made the great animated film 101 Dalmatians in 1961. Then in 1996 they made a real film with Glenn Close"
    
    First result 'wiki' , looks like the hub wasnt all that original to begin with!
    
    hubpages article at position 5 - the sunday136.cn site is nowhere to be seen, probably doesnt rank at all since its all dupe content
    
    The associated twitter to both sites is
    
    http://twitter.com/sophieqd
    
    there havent been updates in months
    
    using that same username sophieqd, you can find a bukisa account with copied content(ezine) also (not updated in months)
    
    http://www.bukisa.com/people/sophieqd
    
    and here is the hubprofile of teh same user (has the same pic)
    
    http://hubpages.com/profile/sophieqd

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       wordscribe41posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Thanks, everyone.  I'm feeling pissy after the whole ordeal this weekend.  I really want to tell these SOB's what I think of them.  How friggin' rude.  One of the articles even had the Hubpage challenge logo on it.  Sheesh.  The nerve.

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       sunforgedposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       did you see that^----  the hubpages profile probably is linked to his/her email

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          wordscribe41posted 13 years agoin reply to this

          Just found that, lordy.

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    wordscribe41posted 13 years ago

    I think this is also her:  http://www.flixya.com/user/sophiesd

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    wesleycoxposted 13 years ago

    I'm pretty much the biggest dumbass there is when it comes to internet/computer technical stuff, so I'll just ask.  Is it possible for hubpages to disable the right mouse button on these pages.  I believe if someone intent to steal our work by cutting and pasting would not do it if they had to re-type everything.  Just a thought.

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       sunforgedposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       yes, its a javascript code, youll see it at photo sites that wont let you right click and copy photos
       
       BUT, you just go into your browser settings and disable java, then you can copy if you like
       
       anybody who wants to copy it will probably know that.
       
       A lot of times people use programs to "scrape" teh content froma  site, there really isnt a way to stop this...unfortunately the bad guys are smarter...the goods guys just play catch up

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       wordscribe41posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I like it, I like it a lot, wesley.

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    Stacie Lposted 13 years ago

    it says 'share everything"
    yeah share everything,whether you want to or not! hahahaha
    
    I need to have some comic relief now:D

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    wesleycoxposted 13 years ago

    What about PDF?  Is that even an avenue?
    
    Wordscribe: Glad you liked it.

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    wordscribe41posted 13 years ago

    She's also here:  http://www.bukisa.com/people/sophieqd

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    Sufidreamerposted 13 years ago

    If I remember rightly, Bukhisa and Ezine are pretty good at taking down content.
    
    Flixya - that is one site that I would love to see disappear

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       Rhianni32posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You and me both. I'm not very found of Flixya at all.

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    Dolores Monetposted 13 years ago

    I just clicked the link and found one of my  hubs right away. But when I started to read it, found that they had changed some words. It looked like it had been turned into a Mad Lib because it no longer made any sense. Sorry, I had to laugh. It was ridiculous. If you find one of your hubs, give it a read and see what they've done to it.

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       wordscribe41posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       That is funny, sadly mine are stolen word for word, even using my pet's and children's names.

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    wrenfrost56posted 13 years ago

    Another one! Jeeez this is getting stupid, thanks for the info wordscribe, just going to check it out now.

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    Dolores Monetposted 13 years ago

    And the trouble with talking about these people is that now we are all running over to check out the site and she's getting more traffic.

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       wordscribe41posted 13 years agoin reply to this

       I know, I thought about that, too.  I'm over it now.  Have accepted it's just part of online writing and I'm not going to waste any more time with it.

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    lrohnerposted 13 years ago

    I think that's the right move, WS. I only worry when the site is monetized and/or ranks higher than the original content in Google. This site didn't meet either criteria.

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    Lori J Mitchellposted 13 years ago

    What is docstoc?  I found one of mine on docstoc lastnight and complained through the contact us button and it has now been removed.  Thank goodness!
    
    
    
    
    http://www.docstoc.com/documents/most-recent/

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    Choke Franticposted 13 years ago

    This is horrible! I hope none of my hubs get stolen.

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