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Year of Original Content: Make Money From Copyright Thieves

April 23, 2009 by Lorelle VanFossen

Ask First Copyright badge - by Lorelle VanFossenI and Jonathan Bailey of Plagiarism Today have long been advocates of copyright protections and education, leading the way with projects such as “Ask First,” the “Year of Original Content,” “5 Content Theft Myths and Why They Are False,” and “The 6 Steps to Stop Content Theft.”

It seems that the rest of the world is waking up to the fact that stolen content is big business. Within the past two years, there are a variety of services you can use to track where your online content has gone, report and stop it. A new project is underway called the Fair Syndication Consortium that might put a dollar amount on that stolen content, paying you for others abusing your content. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features Tagged With: Adsense, blog content, Content Scraping, content theft, copyright, copyright fair use, doubleclick, Fair Syndication Consortium, fairshare, make money, monetize, scapers, scraping, spam blogs, sploggers, splogging, Splogs, tracking content theft, writing, year of original content

WordPressDirect: Blogging Tool or Spam Engine?

November 24, 2008 by Jonathan Bailey

A recent post on Mashable regarding a tool called WordPress Direct elicited a great deal of passion on both sides. One commenter, for example, called the service a “one stop shop spam blog engine” while another, who claims to have used the service, said it was “a simple solution to adding new posts to a blog in between longer, hand written posts”.

But what is clear is that tools like WordPress Direct are becoming more and more common. Part of the double-edged nature of open source development is that, while most will use the license to extend the product in healthy ways, a few will do so in ways that can be used for unethical purpose. Though this is not an argument against open source, more and more tools like WordPress Direct have sprung up, often charging high monthly fees for “maintenance free” blogging.

But what does WordPress Direct do and is it a spam tool? The answer is complicated and made more so by the fact that the nature of spam and even the definition of spam is a moving target. However, it is clear that WordPress Direct, along with similar products, have a lot of potentially dangerous uses and, if its marketing is any indication, those uses are very much by design. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Features, News, Podcasts Tagged With: content theft, rss scraping, Spam, spam blogs, splogging, Splogs, WordPress

Tracking Scrapers Together Through Trackbacks

September 2, 2008 by Lorelle VanFossen

A blog post linking to one of my blog posts has been scraped dozens of times. Recently, it was scraped by eight different sites in the same day. The eight trackbacked sites turned out to have a single owner/webmaster using their auto-blogging scraper across multiple splog sites. I’ve let the blogger know – after the second time it happened – and now that it’s happened multiple times, it’s time to change strategies.

It’s now time to work together.

Have you received multiple trackbacks over time from an blog post with a link to yours and the investigation finds that it isn’t the original site but a scraper? What do you do? [Read more…]

Filed Under: Guides Tagged With: blog content, blog writing, Blogging, Content Scraping, copyright, copyright violation, jonathan bailey, plagiarism, plagiarism today, scrappers, splogging, Splogs

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