On Spammers and Scammers

This evening I made an intriguing discovery.

A post I had made — on my favorite short story, “Lean Times in Lankhmar” — has been “scraped.”

What that means is this. Someone else has taken that post, and published it on a blog. Specifically, a blog about making money. Sometimes called a “splog,” short for “spam-blog.”

I have the URL. No, I’m not going to share it. Why draw attention to it?

Thanks to a Whois search, I have the owner of said website.

I’m going to send him an invoice. He’s in the UK. I think £100 is fair.

He’s taken my words. He’s republished them under the name of “JD.” I may be many things, but I have never been a “JD.”

If he wants to claim my words, on my favorite short story no less, for his own, fine. But he’s going to have to pay me for them.

Published by Allyn

A writer, editor, journalist, sometimes coder, occasional historian, and all-around scholar, Allyn Gibson is the writer for Diamond Comic Distributors' monthly PREVIEWS catalog, used by comic book shops and throughout the comics industry, and the editor for its monthly order forms. In his over ten years in the industry, Allyn has interviewed comics creators and pop culture celebrities, covered conventions, analyzed industry revenue trends, and written copy for comics, toys, and other pop culture merchandise. Allyn is also known for his short fiction (including the Star Trek story "Make-Believe,"the Doctor Who short story "The Spindle of Necessity," and the ReDeus story "The Ginger Kid"). Allyn has been blogging regularly with WordPress since 2004.

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