Watch out for Scrapers and Plagiarists As You Remove Your Stories
As we copy and delete our articles, be on the lookout for a few nefarious folks out there. Those with scrapper programs and other plagiarists are likely busy copying our stuff. This is what happened when Helium folded. When republishing the article from there, I received warnings that the story was a copy of an existing article. Sometimes, this happened a few years after Helium's demise. There's always somebody out there to take advantage of these situations.
It's already happening on Owlcation. TAG or whoever they hired to take over, have been taking content from Discover since late May and creating derivative works from it. They have taken close to 300 articles from Discover.
I'd encourage everyone to check for their articles prior to deleting and reposting elsewhere.
WanderWisdom has a few too, but far less. Pethelpful as well, however mostly name lists and likely harder to prove. Although I suspect given that this practice is being done across multiple former HP niche sites, if those authors filed the name lists would also be taken down.
They spun your El Duende and myths of the Piri Reis map articles. There could be more, but those I know for sure.
Several authors have had success getting these articles removed by filing DMCAs to dmca@thearenagroup. net
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