My highest traffic articles have been copied. I've been chasing the culprits for some time, because of difficulty in tracing the web host so that I can properly issue a DMCA take-down request. The infringing sites are hosted through third party "pass-through" sites; their abuse contacts say that there is nothing they can do. Today, I finally received a contact email address for an actual web host for one of the infringing sites. Unfortunately, that web host is located in Panama. I doubt that they will do anything.
The other difficulty I've had is one of language. A web host for an infringing site in Japan kept sending my DMCA request to the Hubpages web host, saying I was the infringing site. It has taken me several months to get the Japan web host to act appropriately and take down the other site.
Meanwhile, my earnings have dropped in half, which can't be coincidence. I know that Hubpages says that I will not be penalized for content of mine that has been stolen, but surely I am being penalized in terms of less traffic. I am so frustrated.
As an ordinary person without a lot of resources, chasing these content bandits takes hours and hours of my time. I am tempted to close my Hubpages account and give up, but my content will still be out there, in stolen form, which isn't fair. Can't Hubpages use their resources to put a corporate face to DMCA takedown requests, and help us?
by Cholee Clay 21 hours ago
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up that HP has started the process of mining articles from Discover. The new Owlcation articles have the same title as the ones on Discover (in most cases) and the URLs are identical as well. The only difference is the beginning. For example,...
by Poppy 7 years ago
I'm so angry. Today I got the little red circled C warning me my content was stolen. A quick scan in the plaguirism checker showed that someone had copied one of my game guides word for word onto their site. Do they not realise that just adding "Source: (link to the LevelSkip article) doesn't...
by Andrew 15 years ago
Hello Hubpage Team and fellow Hubbers, I found this site that is copying a ton of articles from Hubpages.I filed 3 DMCA's already on this site for different pages on this account called:ShiftnThere is also a replica calledShiftmAnd I believe there is a 3rd account.I think they have over 17,000...
by Mary McShane 10 years ago
If you have noticed your traffic decreasing lately on some of your hubs, this Facebook page is copying content from several hubbers and publishing it on their FB page. The Facebook page is called OHealth atwww .facebook .com /pages ...
by Pamela N Red 11 years ago
Someone here at HubPages has copied one of my articles. It was actually HubPages that added a copyright symbol letting me know. I flagged and notified HubPages of this but the story is still up. Why would I have to file a DMCA report when it's in house and HubPages knows about this violation? The...
by LiamBean 12 years ago
About once a week I peruse my hubs to check on traffic, comments, and just generally see how things are going. One of my hubs, "What Are The Benefits of Eating Bananas," had the copyright symbol next to it. I know from past experience that this means hubpages has found my content...
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